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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



Trumpet-Calls 

(FOR THE UNSAVED.) 
BY 

BYRON J. REES, 

Author of "The Heart-Cry of Jesus," "Christlikeness," "Hulda: The 

Pentecostal Prophetess," "Hallelujahs from Portsmouth Nos. 

2 and 3," and Review Editor of "The Revivalist." 




Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet and shew my people 
their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. — Isaiah lviii: i. 



M. W. KNAPP, 

Publisher of Pentecostal Literature, Office of The Revivalist, Pentecostal 

Holiness Library, and Full Salvation Quarterly, 

Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Copyright, 1899, by M. W. Knapp. 






41859 

TO JESUS CHRIST, 

"Whose I Am aisd 

Whom 1 Serve," 

This Book is Devoutly 

Dedicated. 

BYRON J. REES. 

June i7, 1899. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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PAGE. 

The Foreword 5 

Chapter I. Fatal Indifference 11 

Chapter II. The Consciousness of Guilt and 

Poverty 20 

Chapter III. The Starving Heart 26 

Chapter IV. The Shortness of Life 30 

Chapter V. The Justice of God 37 

Chapter VI. The Will of God Revealed 40 

Chapter VII. God Against Sin 50 

Chapter VIII. God Against Sin— Continued 57 

Chapter IX. God Against Sin™ Concluded .... 65 

Chapter X. The Judgment 76 

Chapter XI. The Judgment — Continued 84 

Chapter XII. Excuses 94 

Chapter XIII. Repentance 107 

Chapter XIV. Conversion — Becoming a Christian. . . 116 
Chapter XV. Some Characteristics of Real Chris- 
tians 125 

Chapter XVI. Instructions to Converts 137 

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THE FOREWORD. 



The author is becoming more and more 
impressed with the brevity of probation. 
The world may stand for a thou- The Passage 
sand years or for ten thousand — ""^ '^'°'®* 
of that we know but little: our part in it, 
however, will soon be over, our destinies 
will soon be fixed; our opportunities forever 
gone. ''We never look upon the same river," 
and our opportunities are floating past us 
never to return. What we do we must do 
quickly. God is striking the horologe of 
time; the shadow on the dial of life is ever 
shifting. Swifter than the Empire State 
Express, than the flight of a Mauser bullet, 
than thought itself is the passing of Oppor- 
tunity. Our trains are all hurrying toward 
the one great terminus. Eternity, and it be- 
hoves us to take heed lest we be deposited 
upon the station-platform utterly unprepared 
to leave the cars. 



6 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

But how much does that man owe his 

fellowman who has been awakened to the 

awfulness of sin and the bliss of 

Our Duty. 

heaven? Can the saved man do 
anything less than his very utmost to save 
men and yet keep his soul clear from the 
blood of damned souls ? If those fortunate 
lepers who chanced to discover the Syrian 
spoils had neglected to spread the glad news 
in the starving city all history would have 
hissed and cursed them. The spirit of 
Christ's Gospel is altruistic. No sooner is a 
man truly saved himself than he springs to 
his feet on fire to help someone else. 

''Bless me, Lord, and make me a blessing, 

I will gladly Thy message convey; 

Help me to help some poor needy soul, 

And make me a blessing to-day. ' ' 

The Master said to His disciples, ''Lift up 

your eyes and look on the fields, for they 

The White ^^'^ white already to harvest. ' ' A 

Harvest. cc^j^-^^ harvcst'M Wc havc seen 

the restlessness of the Western farmer when 
his wheat was ''dead ripe." We have heard 
him say that if his grain was not harvested 



THE FOREWORD. 7 

soon, the wheat would shatter out of the 
^'heads'' and go to waste. What anxiety 
must there be in the heart of Jesus, the great 
Husbandman, as He sees precious souls fall- 
ing to the ground and the great waving field 
of standing grain yet untouched by the 
reapers. 

Shall we not enter into fellowship with 
Jesus? Shall we not be in sympathetic touch 
with the lone Man who prayed The 

until grey dawn on bleak moun- i-o^eMan. 
tain peaks ? We can do but little ourselves, 
but we can do our best, and at that Christ al- 
ways smiles. Was there a richer reward ever 
bestowed than that which fell to the lot of 
Mary ? ''She hath done what she could. " 

We must not be discouraged by the great- 
ness of the task. We must remember that 
having done all we can do, our unwavering 
duty is to leave all else in the ^^'*^" 
hands of God. A man can never be too eager 
for the triumph of right, but he may be too 
impatient. Let us have a strong, unwavering 
faith in Jesus, and with calm, rock-ribbed 
earnestness ^^cry aloud and spare not and lift 



8 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

up the voice like a trumpet^ showing the people 
their transgressions and the house of Jacob 
their sins.''^ 

The purpose of this book is to warn men 

against sin and its consequences, and lead 

A Burning them to Scriptural penitence and 

Desire. £^|j salvatiou. The author enters 
upon the service of writing this message 
conscious of one thing — a burning desire to 
help save men from sin and hell and heart- 
ache and misery and wretchedness, and point 
them to a Christ who can and will bestow 
cheer and happiness and laughter and con- 
solation. 

It is our prayer that these pages may be 

read thoughtfully and prayerfully. Do not 

Benefit and ^^^^ for entertainment. You will 
Blessing. ^^^ g^^ -^^ ^^^^ f ^^, heziefit and 

blessing, and God will give them. 

Sinner, if you should find between the 

covers of this volume a coat which fits you, 

Your Own ^^ ^^^ pass it ou to auothcr. For 

^°*** the sake of your own soul, for the 

sake of those about you, sturdily shove your 

shoulders into the garment made for you. 



THE FOREWORD. 9 

It will protect you from the cold, deadly 
blasts of the winter of the Judgment. 

Read this book to the glory of God, Satan, 
the aggressive, Argus-eyed enemy of your 
soul, would gladly persuade you The Men of 
to skim it lightly, laughing at its ^®'^®^' 
warnings and curling the lip at its earnest 
admonitions. Think seriously of your own 
spiritual welfare. Read, ponder, meditate, 
pray. Remember that the men of Berea 
''were more noble than those of Thessalonica 
in that they received the word with all readi- 
ness of mind and searched the Scriptures 
daily whether those things were so." If the 
slightest anxiety concerning your soul's 
safety arises in your mind cultivate it, en- 
courage it, stimulate it, cherish it. It is a 
floating bough, such as Columbus found, 
pointing to a new world. It is a testimony 
that you have not committed the unpardonable 
sin and are not yet across "the dead-line." 

0, brother ! I cry to you out of my heart : 
Make your peace with God. You The steei 
have already waited too long. You ^"^ ^^ ^^"^ 
have insulted God ivith your negligence and 



10 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

become the laiighingstock of devils^ who plot 
your ruin. Flee to Jesus. Hide under the 
covert of His blood! Espouse Him as your 
Savior that you may shake off the steel grip 
of sin and shun the lurid path to the impeni- 
tent^ s hell! 

May the tender, loving Christ stretch His 
fair hands in blessing over us as we write 
and as we read. Amen ! Byron J. Kees. 

Westport, Mass., 1899. 



CHAPTER I. 

FATAL INDIFFERENCE. 

Never was the liumaii mind so broad in its 
interests nor so wide-awake in its attitude 
as in this, the last decade of the Modem 
century. There seems to be no ^^^rgy. 
limit to the catalogue of subjects to the study 
of which it stands read; to devote both time 
and energy in abundance. Whole depart- 
ments of scientific studies are being opened 
up almost daily. New literary fields are 
being worked with enthusiasm. Invention 
goes forward with startling pace, and all the 
world gapes and wonders. 

The mammoth printing presses of the mod- 
ern publishing house make the wide diffusion 
of knowledge practicable and easy. Diffusion of 
The mill-operative is in a position ^^o^^edge. 
to be a better read man than was the king ir. 
purple of a century ago. The high-school 
graduate of 1899 has studied more books and 

gained more information than the Harvard 

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12 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

or Yale alumnus of the latter part of the 
eighteenth century. 

Our interests are world-wide. Formerly 
only a very few took any interest in events 
War and outside of their immediate neigh- 
invention. borhoods. No w all this is changed. 
The road-menders, eating their lunches in the 
shade, talk about Dewey and Manila and the 
Philippines and the happenings on the other 
side of the world. Nansen goes on a search for 
the Pole, and the eyes and interest of two 
hemispheres follow him. Hobson sinks the 
Merrimac^ and ''click, click," sounds the tele- 
graph instrument and the news soon belts the 
globe and thousands of hands clap and mil- 
lions of voices cry '"Rah for Hobson!" 
Edison toils and studies alone in his labora- 
tory, but all the world is there with him, 
invisible, profoundly interested. 

The multiplication of books, the growth 

of the newspaper, the increased facilities for 

transportation, — all these things 

A Full Life. i nn i 

help to fill the modern man's life 
to overflowing. Our forefathers had abund- 
ance of time on their hands. Sundays were 



FATAL INDIFFERENCE. 13 

always free for meditation and rest, while 
the evenings were generally spent quietly at 
home. This state of things was not with- 
out a moral effect. 

When a man is alone, God talks to him. 
When he is out by himself with no business 
to pound on the panels of atten- 

God's Voice. 

tion, no magazines to make time 
pass swiftly, no book to bring him into touch 
with another's mind, then God sends His 
voice quivering down the air toward the 
unawakened soul. The first step toward a 
knowledge of God is separation from the 
whirr and roar of activity. If a man will 
but give God a chance, He will call to him. 
Modern life crowds God out. Between 
the affairs of nations and the works of art, 
the adventures of explorers and christ 
the pleasures of society, Christ is "^''^^'^ ^^*' 
crowded to the wall, and matters of eternal 
weight and moment are ignored. The ''new 
books of the month," the drawings by Gib- 
son, the latest novel by Kipling, ''the Eastern 
Question" — all these have place in the heart 



14 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

and attention, but death and judgment and 
heaven and hell receive scarcely a thought. 
The well-nigh universal unconcern in re- 
gard to matters so momentous as death and 
salvation argues the existence of 

Death. . 

a devil. Death is everywhere, 
and yet wise, careful, systematic preparation 
for it is rare. The great mass of people 
behave themselves as if life was eternal and 
the grave a mere myth, a mirage, a fancy, a 
figment of the brain. 

According to social rules it is '^not good 
form to discuss religious matters during a 

''The Poor mcal. " Modcm society is wear- 
soui." j^^g blinders and goggles; not only 
that, but she regards with suspicion and 
enmity the man who would remove them. 
Religion and the ministers of Christ are held 
at arm's length. Even at death, when the 
kingdom of doom and despair is about to 
seize upon the impenitent soul, the anxious 
clergyman is told by the mother in the hall, 
'^Miss Gladys is too sick to see you, sir. 
The doctor says we must not tell her or even 
,hint to her that she is going to die." And 



FATAL INDIFFERENCE. 15 

SO, for fear of a momentary excitement, the 
poor soul slips off into torture and anguish. 

Satan's plot can be descried in this syste- 
matic attempt to elbow God out of the life 
and heart. Hating the fair son of Eazor-iike 
God with a sullen, persistent hatred '^^^^''^' 
he is determined to give Him all the heart- 
pain possible by damning all the souls on 
which he can get his razor-like talons. 

It does not matter much to the Adversary 
with what he fills the life, if only he can ex- 
clude God and salvation. In some gatan's 
cases a demi-john and a tumbler are ^^^^^' 
enough, in others he must furnish a span of 
prancing horses, a black shiny coach and a 
cottage at the seaside. ^'If one bait will not 
tempt, possibly another will. " This is his 
motto, and his whole course of procedure is 
in accordance with it. Some men can be 
damned with a pack of cards, but others go 
down more difficultly. In some cases, all 
Europe must be ransacked for rare pictures 
by the Masters and all the world searched 
for fine scenery, lest the soul be surfeited 
and turn to God. 



16 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

A certain German Professor could be 

caught with no less bait than an exhaustive 

Socks and study of the Dative Case. Esau 

^®®^^* sold his birthright for a mess of 
pottage. Poor Poe wrecked his soul for the 
pleasures of dissipation. Solomon grieved 
the Spirit and poisoned the kingdom with 
polygamy. Some split on the rock of ambi- 
tion, others on the reef of the appetites, 
while still others are sucked downward in 
the black, noiseless whirlpool of worldly cul- 
ture and refinement. A painting from Italy 
or a fine face, a name for learning or a posi- 
tion on a foot-ball team, the praise of ac- 
quaintances or the fear of scorn — it matters 
not with what the soul is hindered, if only 
Christ and the blood are debarred, Satan is 
satisfied. 

''But I do not believe there is a devil !" 
Who, then, does the devil's work? Who is 
The Work of 1* ^^at plauts thc goat-signed 

^^^^'^' saloon on the corner, the harlotry 
in the alley? Who is it that turns sober 
men into raving maniacs, innocent boys into 
hardened criminals ? Who is it that grinds 



FATAL INDIFFERENCE. 17 

the face of the poor and breaks the hearts of 
wives and mothers ? Who is it reddens the 
plains and harbors with blood and fills the 
earth with the sound of blows ? Every black 
deed of ghastliness and crime, every dying 
sinner crying, like Goethe, '^More light! 
More light !'^ every betrayed gir], with her 
face buried in her hands; every neglected 
orphan crying in the cold, every bastard 
cursing his despised parent, every sigh, 
every groan, every tear, every wail, every 
sin, argues the existence of a devil. 

Supposing you do not believe in the ex- 
istence of a devil, does your unbelief do 
away with him? Skepticism de- "The Federal 
stroys nothing except faith and ^^p^ess." 
your own hope of salvation. You may 
doubt that strychnine is deadly in its 
effects, but if you take it it will kill you. 
The other night our train was plunging 
across New Jersey, through a dense fog, at 
fifty miles an hour, when suddenly the brakes 
were applied and the train came to a full 
stop. The brakemen seized their lanterns, 
ran back on the track a short distance and 



18 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

picked up the mangled body of a man. The 
unfortunate fellow did not believe^ doubtless, 
that walking the track was so dangerous, but 
in an instant the iron thunderbolt struck him 
and his blood spattered the wheels of the 
locomotive. 

After all, it is probably not a matter of 

much concern to Satan as to whether or no 

we believe in his existence; all he 

''A Myth!". 

wants is to get us. It would seem 
on the whole that he is glad for us to deny 
his existence. How grimly must he smile 
to look over the shoulder of one of his dis- 
ciples and slaves and find him hard at work 
on a magazine article entitled, '' The Devil : 
A Study of the Development of a Myth !" 

There is no appeal from ' ' Thus saith the 
Lord " for honest men. The Bible invari- 
Eternai ^bly takcs for granted the exist- 
^^^^^* ence of the devil, and what God 
takes for granted in talking to man, man 
is a fool to doubt. It were not more foolish 
to butt our brains out on stone walls than to 
dash our souls into shreds on the rock bul- 
warks of eternal facts. 



FATAL INDIFFERENCE. 19 

Satan is the Arch-Deceiver. He is com- 
pared to a serpent, a nocturnal sower of 
tares, a wolf. With sly cunning The Devirs 
and secret attempt he is hood- c^^^^-^^^^- 
winking and blinding myriads of souls all 
over the turning world. The heathen wor- 
ship him as a god; civilized nations deny 
his existence, yet bow down to him in the 
form of selfishness, greed, and mere intel- 
lectualism. Tireless and ubiquitous he is 
shackling and manacling millions of wrists 
and ankles, handcuffing and fettering untold 
hosts of souls, driving them in his chain-gang 
down the smoke-grimed crater into hell. 



CHAPTER II. 

THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT AND SPIRITUAL 
POVERTY. 

Why should a man think least about that 
which concerns him most ? Because his 

A Bonnd miud is bound by the Prince of 

^^^^' darkness. Yet so many things 
ought to make the indifferent sinner halt in 
his tracks, aghast and thunderstruck at the 
horror of his condition ! 

The consciousness of guilt is universal, and 

ought to make a man reflect, consider his 

The Voice in ways, and alter his course. When 
the Soul. ^ ^^^^ p^|.g ]^|j^g^}f iq i]^Q point 

of query, and asks himself, "Do I ever feel 
guilty?" he is compelled to answer in the 
affirmative. There may be whole days when 
the sense of condemnation is not experienced, 
but suddenly a voice sounds in the soul, 
''Thou art condemned and deservest pun- 
ishment." No sinner can say truthfully, " I 
do the best I can." The least that can be 

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CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT. 21 

expected of him is that he give his heart to 
God and cease his sinful course. God has 
put in the soul a gun which can not be 
spiked. It is Consciousness, From its red- 
hot grape and canister there is no permanent 
relief except in Jesus. *'I feel guilty" is 
the sentiment of all impenitents, whether 
they express it or conceal it. 

No amount of argument and theory can 
silence the cry of consciousness in the heart. 
Supposing some smooth-talking There ought 
preacher does say, 'There is no tobeaHeii. 
Hell; that word ought to be relegated to the 
speeches of gibberish old women and tales 
of the nursery;" supposing a backslidden 
church should decide that the New Testament 
representation of eternal punishment is only 
a liberal use of mere figures, a horrid dream, 
a phantasy, a nothing, nothing ivoiild he al- 
tered in the matter of consciousness. Though 
infidelity and apostasy should clasp hands, 
swing hats, and shout, ''No Hell! No Hell!" 
something within the breast would say, "If 
there is no Hell, there ought to be one, for I 
have sinned and deserve righteous penalty." 



22 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

If there is no Hell, where will God put the^ 
hopelessly impenitent? If a man shuts his 
The Gaol of ^Y^s to light and grinds his teeth 
the umverse. ^^ hatred of God and righteous- 
ness up to the very last, can there bo a 
Heaven for him ? God never forces the will, 
never compels men to be good; such ''good- 
ness" would not be goodness; it would have 
no moral quality. Hell is the gaol of the 
Universe and into it are turned the ''wicked 
and all they that forget God." 

A man can not get away from himself. 
Guilt dogs his steps; unrest palsies his facul- 
ties until his best works are only 

Macbeth. 

shadows of what he might do 
were there no disturbing cry in the heart. 
Guilt sees retribution in everything. Even 
God becomes an Avenger to the eye of the 
condemned soul. "Macbeth sees Him with 
forked lightnings without and volcanic fires 
within," because blood is on his hands and 
conscience. 

A man is built for nobler things than this 
world can furnish. There is a hunger in the 
heart that nothing material can satisfy. The 



CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT. 23 

first-cabin passengers who leave the Majestic 
at the pier after their Summer j^ower 
in Europe have that same un- Thmgs. 
satisfied look in their faces which they had 
when they left America in the Spring. It is 
not with travel, nor books, nor scenery, nor 
money, nor learning, nor friendship, that the 
immortal spirit can be fully satiated. As 
St. Augustine says so beautifully in one of 
his prayers: ^^ Lord, our souls were made 
for Thee, and they are restless till they rest 
in Thee." 

Would God build a temple for Himself and 
then refuse to live in it? Would He erect 
an edifice with halls and chambers a Deserted 
fit only for the divine Shekinah ^°''^®' 
and yet not fill the emptiness of the house ? 

There is nothing sadder than a deserted 
]>.ouse. The writer when in school frequently 
passed one the rich owner of which 

Loneliness. 

had left closed and uncared for 
while he traveled in the Orient. The arched 
gateway covered with untended ivy, the grass- 
filled walks, the closed shutters, the smoke- 
less chimneys, the air of loneliness and de- 



24 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

sertion which filled the place, all told the 
passer-by that the house had lost its tenant. 

Supposing that the house is human and 
sentient ; supposing that when the owner 

AnArgn- ^^^^ lord is abscut it pines and 
^^^^' sickens ; supposing that its lord 
is the Lord o£ Heaven, would He leave it to 
the mercies of time and age and light and 
darkness and heat and cold and rain and 
ice? No; the fact that there is an indescrib- 
able yearning in the soul for God is an argu- 
ment that God will dwell in the soul if it 
will permit Him. 

God knows that nothing less than His 

presence can ever make us permanently 

A Yawning happy. Look at that great yawn- 

chasm. ^^^g chasm in the heart ! Will you 
fill it ? Then hurl in the Pyramids of Egypt ! 
Is it full ? No. Tumble in a row of tene- 
ments, a business block, a name for wisdom 
and culture, an unexcelled popularity. Now 
is it filled ? No ! No ! These things fall 
so far in the gaping crevice that we do not 
hear them strike ! Empty in the Alps and 
the Rockies and the Himalayas and the Con- 



CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT. 25 

tinents and all the world! But the void is 
not filled ! What can fill it ? God only. 
When He enters in, the aching emptiness is 
gone and the soul becomes ^'complete in 
Him." 



CHAPTER HI. 

THE STARVING HEART. 

The heart is greater than the brain. Eras- 
mus was a thinker, but Luther was a lover of 

Erasmus and Hieu's souls. One was clear and 
Luther. ^^Y^ ^g j^^^. ^j^^ other flamed and 

burned with a passionate affection for the 
salvation of his fellow-beings. One quick- 
ened the intellectual life of Europe, but the 
other was the Father of the Reformation. 

When a man espouses Christ, he lets his 
heart have liberty. The sinner locks his heart 

Anim- i^ an ^^^^ ^^S^ against the bars of 
prisonedBird. ^^Ich, Hkc au imprisoucd bird, it 

beats with bloody wing. 

Not infrequently a man has become so de- 
voted to literature and learning that his 
«if I Had heart has starved to death. Carlyle 
Known." b^iriexl his heart under piles of MSS. 
and lecture notes; harshness crept into his 
manner and raspiness into the tones of his 

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THE STARVING HEART. 27 

voice until finally he broke the heart of the 
fair, trustful girl whom he had promised to 
love and cherish. Friends used to find him 
at her grave murmuring, ''If I had only 
known; if I had only known." 

The people who have blessed us and 
thrown light into our lives have been 
''people of heart." Brilliant unselfish 
men are admired and talked devotion, 
about, but to them we do not turn in hours 
of grief and loneliness. Goethe was more 
of a scholar than Schiller, but the latter 
is beloved by a nation while the former 
is studied chiefly by literateurs. Yery 
rarely do men really love the scholar who 
gratifies his thirst for knowledge by hiding in 
the cloisters of some gray old university, but 
nations sing the praises of Florence Night- 
ingale and Jenny Lind and Clara Barton be- 
cause they had sympathetic hearts and placed 
their talents at the service of the people. 

"Give thy heart a chance, man ! " cries 
Wisdom. Let the gentle songster t^.^ oentie 
go free. It longs to leave the Songster. 
cruel cage, pierce the blue sky and dart back 



28 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

and forth in the free, open air of heaven. If 
you keep it encaged, all your hopes for this 
world and the next are destined to die. 

A pastor in Wilkes Barre, Pa., told me of 
an accident which occurred near that city. 

A Mining 0^^ aftcrnoou there was a bad 

Accident. ''cavc" of slatc and coal, and six 
men were imprisoned by the fall of hundreds 
of tons of the black rock. Attempts were 
made at once to rescue them, although it was 
the opinion of the oldest and most expe- 
rienced miners that the men were already 
crushed to death. 

Day after day the work of excavation went 

on. Meanvv^hile, the six men, shut off from 

starving in ^H mcaus of cscapc and forced to 

the Dark. cousidcr the thought of an awful 
death, faced the danger as bravely as they 
could. One of their number was chosen 
leader. He divided the oil and food, using 
the greatest care to make fair apportion- 
ments. One lamp was kept burning a few 
hours each day; the remainder of the time 
was spent in utter darkness. Food was 
soon exhausted, and one of the mine-mules, 



THE STARVING HEART. 29 

which was on the point of starvation, was 
killed and eaten. One day they heard the 
faint sound of distant blows. Hope sprang 
up in their hearts and the sounds of the res- 
cuing party came nearer every hour. At 
one time, as the workmen outside rested for 
a moment, they heard almost inaudible sounds 
from below; they were the signals made by 
the prisoners. They were starving in the 
dark, with little hope, and no power to help 
themselves; but they were signaling for help. 

It is thus with a man's better nature. It 
is imprisoned by landslides of sin and gigan- 
tic ' 'cave-ins " of iniquity. It is Audience 
starving, crying in the dark. It a^^s^^^^^" 
makes pitiable, inarticulate signals of dis- 
tress praying for audience and succor. 

man ! man ! give your heart a chance ! 
Do not deny it longer. You have choked 
it, strangled it, throttled it for The crushed 
years. Let the Savior head a ^®^''^' 
rescuing party for its release and liberation 
that, like the rescued miners, it may breathe 
the open air. 



CHAPTER lY. 

THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE. 

Another cause for immediate reflection and 

thoiightfulness is the shortness of life. The 

Life's average length of the human life 

Brevity. ^^ ^^ strikingly short ! There are 
comparatively few old men. Look at the 
throngs who jostle and hurry on the street, 
study the faces of the traveling men in the 
hotel, search hard to find aged men who are 
teachers or writers; one can not but see that 
the great mass of men die and are buried be- 
fore they reach middle-life. Disease in some 
one of its million forms, or war, famine, 
over-work, worry, grief, heart-ache, cyclones, 
tornadoes, epidemics, sewer-gas, wrecks, dis- 
asters, all these carry men off with celerity. 
A cold, a rusty nail. La Grippe, a hearty 
meal, a fractured rail, a broken stirrup, a 
misstep, and in a trice the name is taken off 
the door-plate and placed on a grave-stone. 

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THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE. 31 

Where is the man so idiotic as to say, ''I 
am planning to die impenitent!'' You can 
not find him. Ransack the Big Eepentance 
Cypress Swamp and hunt out the ^^toff. 
old hermit living on roots and ask him if he 
intends to go to death without repenting and 
he opens his eyes wide and stutters, ''No; I 
believe in a Superior Being and mean to 
make my peace with Him." Accost a blue- 
coated policeman and question him about 
his chances when he himself is brought into 
Court before the Judge of all the earth and 
he will say, '' 0, I mean to die a Christian." 
They all mean to die Christians, but only a 
few do. 

''I will lead a better life sometime," said 
a dissolute fellow to an evangelist, but the 
days glided by like skaters on the 

•^ ^ *^ "Sometime." 

ice and in a sudden hour the mis- 
erable man was hurried up to the docket of 
omnipotence and omniscience to meet life- 
accounts kept by a celestial book-keeper. 

Youth is the period of Spring, of hope, and 
of courage. The young man looks forward 
to years of vigorous life and green laurels of 



32 TRUMPET CALLS. 

success. He does not give possible accident, 
or disease, or death a moment's 

Fell Dead. ' 

thought. Time slips by like mer- 
cury fleeing from grasping thumb and finger. 
Grey hairs whiten the temples of the busy 
God-forgetter, wrinkles furrow his brow, 
care makes haggard his eye and cheek; he is 
forty, then forty-two, then forty-five; he is 
thinking of having his life insured. One day 
the ambulance halts in front of his door, and 
four men carry a still form up the steps. 
'Tell dead in the office" explains the driver 
to the maid who opens the door. The unap- 
parelled soul of a negligent sinner has gone 
to meet the God he slighted and forgot. 

Life is so mercilessly short. The thought 
falls back upon us again and again, like peb- 
AProcrasti- blcs throwu upward against the 

^^*°^* face of a precipice. We were hold- 
ing meetings in a city in Pennsylvania. 
There was a man in the audience one day 
who was the subject of much solicitude and 
prayer, but he seemed hard and callous. As 
he left the church, the pastor, a very godly 
man, felt profoundly impressed, as he 



THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE. 33 

watched his retreating form pass down the 
aisle and out the door, that the man would 
be dead before night. He could not rid him- 
self of the impression. He even mentioned 
it at the dinner table an hour afterwards. 
At two o'clock, word came to the church, 
'^Geo. Pierce fell dead a few minutes ago!" 
He had resisted God for the last time. He 
had counted on a length of life and a mul- 
tiplicity of opportunities that were denied 
him. 

It is strange we do not reason about death 
as about everything else. That we are all 
compelled to die some time no sheer 
one will deny. After the famous ^^samty. 
doctor has done his best there will come an 
hour at last when things will grow dark and 
unconsciousness will creep over us like fog 
over a landscape. What folly, then, to dis- 
miss the thought of death from the mind ! 
What sheer insanity to refuse to consider 
the problems of the grave and another 
world! 

We remember the King who presented his 
court fool with a staff, saying: ^' When thou 



34 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

findest a greater fool than thyself give him 
the staff." The King fell sick. The King and 
The medical men looked grave ^^^ ^''^^' 
and said: ^' He can not live!" The fool 
stood by the bed of the dying ruler. 

''Fool, I am going on a long journey ! " 

''Art thou, my master? Of course thou 
hast engaged rooms at the hostelries? " 

A moment's silence. 

"No, Fool, I have not." 

"Then thou must needs take much gold 
with thee to pay thy way." 

"I have none that they will accept in that 
distant country." 

"How large a retinue will accompany the 
King?" 

"I am going alone." 

"Will the King's friends in that strange 
land receive him with kindness and love ?" 

"I have no friends there ! They are all 
my enemies !" 

"What preparations hast thou made then, 
OKing?" 

"None whatever! I intended to, but put 



THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE. 35 

it off until it is too late. The journey now 
can not be delayed. I am forced to go !' 

'^How strange! Ha! Ha! Here, Sir King, 
take the staff ! It is thine ! Thou art greater 
fool than I, though I wear cap and bells!" 

What greater folly is there than for one to 
neglect preparations for death until it is too 
late ! 

Walk down the street. Yonder is a flag of 
black crape dangling at a door-knob. Some 
day that dark emblem will hang at 

Crape. 

your door and mine. Look at that 
hearse, with its ghastly urns and sable, shin- 
ing wood-work. A hearse will one day carry 
you and me to our last resting-place- 

careless, flippant, jesting man, there will 
come a time when you will not jest. There 
will be a morning when you will The coming 
not rise and go about your habitual °^ ^®^^^* 
work. Towards noon, perhaps, the doctor 
will drop in. A few days more and tele- 
grams will summon relatives. A day more, 
and rallying from stupor, you will see that 
the room is filled with people, perceived but 
dimly, with handkerchiefs to their faces. 



56 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

The doctor will hold your wrist in one hand, 
his \Yatch in the other. The room will 
darken; a face grinning like a skull and a 
form indescribable will appear before you. 
0, that shadowy form; audit will beckon you, 
and in spite of the skill of physicians, the 
care of nurses, and the tears and sobs of 
loved ones, you will follow into the rayless, 
pitch-black Eternity of Torment ! 

Death is coming; shall we not prepare for 

it? Every man has his choice between two 

kinds of deaths. He can die the 

Two Kinds. i i n i -it 

death of the wicked or the death 
of the righteous. 

A few of us stood about the bed of a dying 
saint in central Indiana. The day was draw- 

A Saint's ^^^S to a closc, aud the shadows 
Translation, ^^j.^ darkening in the corners of 

the room. It seemed to us that a light fell 
about the head of the bed. What triumph 
and victory filled the countenance ! There 
was no fear, no struggle, no twitching of the 
face. A child dropping to sleep could be no 
calmer. The placid, beautiful soul slipped 
out and away to the Garden of Godo 



CHAPTER V. 

THE JUSTICE OF GOD. 

There is yet another reason why the im- 
penitent man should arouse himself from his 
lethargy, rub the sleep out of his An Awfui 
eyes, and take action at once. God ^^^^' 
is jitst^ and this fact ought to make every 
sinner shiver and fear. 

We sometimes hear it said by shallow, 
unthinking persons, ''Oh, well, '^Thanwe 
God is a just God, and will give Reserve." 
us no more punishment than we deserve." 

''Than we deserve!" Ah, right here is 
the difficulty. What we "deserve" is pre- 
cisely what we ought to fear. Have j^^q oniy 
we not broken the righteous law ^^"^^^^ ^^^^' 
of a holy God ? Have we not neglected, 
spurned, scoffed at the Savior of the world ? 
Have we not despised His ministers and 
neglected His Word ? Have we not sinned 

in secret and in public? What we " de- 
ar 



38 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

serve " is ceaseless torment in the Peniten- 
tiary of the Uniyerse, and that is the penalty 
which a just and holy God must impose upon 
the finally impenitent. There is no other 
course open to Him. His nature is such 
that He must act along the lines of exact 
equity and rectitude. Men who have spurned 
the blood of Christ and deafened their ears 
against His voice, must go into '^ outer dark- 
ness where there is weeping and wailing and 
gnashing of teeth." 

Let us be assured of this: God will mete 
out to us the exact and particular penalty 
The Celestial which bclougs to our Kvcs. Our 
Surveyor. Jiyes with their hills, valleys, 
milestones, stiles, prairies, and plateaus will 
all be measured and surveyed by the Celes- 
tial Surveyor, whose clear and accurate mind 
will ferret out all the hidden things and 
make the little sins of the yesterdays appear 
as they are, blacker than a cloudy midnight. 

Aye, aye, sir, God is just. Do not fear 
that He is not; tremble rather because He is. 

Drowning men rescued at the last moment 
frequently behold the ghastly array of the 



THE JUSTICE OF GOD. 39 

sins which they have committed drawn up 
before them. Every volition is The Tribunal 
recorded somewhere, and it lies °^ Heaven. 
in the power of illuminated memory to bring 
us face to face with every deed of our lives. 
When we step up to the tribunal of heaven, 
if we can not plead the blood of Jesus, there 
will arise before us, like the apparitions of 
armed heads and bloody children and march- 
ing kings before Macbeth, all our jealousies 
and envies and lusts and uncleanlinesses and 
filthinesses, a sad army forcing from us the 
piteous cry, '^Undone! Undone ! " 

Ought we not give these things some 
thought ? Do they not concern us more than 
the latest novels, the fashion plates, worthy of 
a fine horse, an armor-piercing thought. 
projectile, the cathode rays, a rare book, an 
European composer, a brawl with Spain ? Is 
not the soul and its salvation of more im- 
portance to us than anything else in the 
world? 



CHAPTER YI. 

THE WILL OF GOD REVEALED. 

God has revealed to us His attitude toward 

sin. There can be no doubt as to how God 

regards sin, for He has taken the 

A Revelation. 

one satisfactory way of enlighten- 
ing our minds about it. He has made a 
revelation. 

Without a direct revelation, man is always 

a poor, groping, struggling, blinded creature, 

Greece and with uo knowlcdgc, aud uo pros- 

^°°^®' pect of any except by divine in- 
tervention. God gave Greece and Rome 
excellent chances to work out a natural 
religion. What was the result? What 
were the '^high religious conceptions" 
evolved from the national consciousness? 
Jove was a tricky old profligate, the gods 
made a harlotry out of the human race, and 
the whole religious system reeked with filth. 

In philosophy, no definite concrete re suits 

40 



THE WILL OF GOD REVEALED. 41 

were obtained. ''Plato alone, of all the 
Greeks, reached the vestibule of 

Philosophy. 

truth and stood upon its threshold.'''' 
No one found out the way of salvation. The 
great mass plunged onward, laughing at the 
thoughtful, and even they fought vainly 
with their doubts. 

Without a direct revelation, we are undone, 
and undone forever. A religion which 
spurns divine revelation breeds offaiand 
selfishness, pruriency, and moral ^®^''^®' 
leprosy. Take the God part out of a sermon, 
out of a book, out of a prayer, out of a 
world, and the rest is offal and refuse, fit only 
for burning. 

And yet we are forever emphasizing what 
man does. We laud man^s colleges, mane's 
culture, man's science, man^s art, 
and speak of God only when neces- 
sary. It is natural for us to love to talk 
about ourselves. We are never quite in our 
element until we are telling some one about 
what we can do and what ive know. This is 
because we are self-centered and conceited — 
the theological word is ''depraved." 



42 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

With all our self-laudation, we are a poor, 

miserable, hell-approaching race, and ought 

Charcoal and to always paiiit our future in char- 

Lightning. ^^^Y ai^(j lightning if we desire 

a truthful picture. High and low, opu- 
lent and poverty-stricken, Webster -brained 
and base-browed, we are all on the same 
road toward the same destiny, except as we 
hide under the covert of Christ's blood. 

God made direct revelations to the saints 
of the Old Dispensation. Enoch and Abram 
The Chief ^^d Moses and David and Isaiah 
Reveiator. ^^^ Dauicl, thcsc mcii talked and 
walked with God. To them, with many 
others, God showed Himself and His plans. 
Then Christ came, God's great and chief 
Reveiator, and men saw more clearly than 
ever before the heart of God. Gradually 
the fund of God's imparted truth accumu- 
lated, and the result is — the Bible. 

^^But I do not believe the Bible," says 

some small person. Indeed ! Then Satan is 

Eternaiin- wiscr than you, for he ''believes 

stmct. ^^^ trembles." You should say 

that the statements made by the Bible are 



THE WILL OF GOD REVEALED. 43 

umvelcome^ and that you hope they are not 
true. For, after all, there are few who do not 
believe the Word of God. Theoretically, 
many are infidels, or atheists, or Deists, or 
what not; but, when put to the test of storm 
or death-bed, eternal instinct rises up in 
panoply and acts on the orthodox basis of 
faith in the divine government and the revela- 
tion of God as seen in the Bible. 

Head infidelity is usually heart iniquity. 
The saloon-keeper professes to disbelieve the 
Bible, because if he admitted Professed 
that he believed it true, he would ^°''^^' 
be compelled, if consistent, to knock the 
bungs out of his beer-barrels, wash the 
gutters with '^rock and rye," and invite 
Salvation lassies into the bar-room to hold 
a prayer-meeting. 

Would you find the chief cause of doubt? 
Probe in the heart. The physicians probed 
the body of Garfield in search of 

The Cause. 

the bullet, but they failed; but no 
sooner does the keen instrument of careful 
observation touch the heart than, lo, the cause 
of unbelief is discovered. 



44 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

The explanation of the modern wave of 
Old and New Testament criticism is to be 
Higher criti- f ound in the spiritual lapse of the 

^^^^' church. When a man's heart loses 
God out of it, he begins to be '^filled with 
his own ways," his own theories, his own 
prejudices. The modern higher critic comes 
to the Bible professing to revere ''the scien- 
tific method," shaming the more conserva- 
tive into silence or consent by his trumpeted 
frankness in searching for ''facts." But, as 
a matter of observation, the critic is com- 
mitted to a theory before he opens his Bihlia 
Hehraica. His decision is a foregone con- 
clusion. 

The latter-day critic has frequently won 
himself an audience more respectable than 
The Name of ^^at of his brothcr, the blatant 

Science. infidcl, by hanging out a sign, "In 
the Name of Science," and yet nothing is 
more unscientific than the methods of study 
pursued by these glib dealers in "Elohistic 
and Jehovistic documents." As has been 
pointed out "science consists in the exact 
observation of certain facts according to the 



THE WILL OF GOD REVEALED. 45 

following accepted principles: (1) Facts ob- 
served, not assumed; (2) facts as observed, 
without prejudgment; (3) consideration of 
all relevant facts; (4) no forcing of facts, 
whether by rejection or insertion; (5) logical 
inductions from the whole body of facts, 
unhampered by theories, unconfuted by grave 
exceptions; (6) substantial agreement on the 
inductions; (7) conclusions that exclude con- 
flicting explanations." 

The higher critics violate every one of 
these principles. Wellhausen and Kuenen 
entered upon their study of the 

Kuenen. 

Old Testament Scriptures with a 
fixed '' determination not to accept the super- 
natural. " They are therefore incompetent 
judges of such a library of books as the Old 
Testament. Kuenen says: ''So long as we 
allow the supernatural to intervene in even 
a single instance, so long our view of the 
whole continues to be incorrect." 

The result of all this unscientific twaddle 
and soft-speeched infidelity is a Mr. Andrew 
Polychrome pertinently: ''The ^^^^' 
method [of the Bible ! Mr. Andrew Lang says 



46 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

higher critic] is simple and Teutonic. You 
have a theory, you accept the evidence of the 
sacred writers as far as it suits your theory, 
and when it does not suit, you say that the 
inconvenient passage is an interpolation. It 
must be, for if not, what becomes of your 
theory? So you print the inconvenient pas- 
sage in green, I suppose, or what not, and 
then the people know all about it." 

So far as we have observed, the theories 

and methods of the critics pretty much 

agree. Driver and Cheyne, and 

Critics. ^ . 

Harper and Smith are all of the 
same sceptical stripe, and are all embarked 
in the same boat; although, of course, not 
all do the same work. Some steer, others 
pull the oars and watch their more favored 
brethren who steer. They humbly hope they 
too may sometime ''take a turn at the 
wheel." 

So long as the mind, the thinking na- 
ture, is not kept in abeyance to a spiritual 
Insane ^1^^ dcvout heart, so long there 
Doubts. ^^ji j^^ wild, foolish theories and 

' ' isms. ' ' Until we really want "to do justly 



THE WILL OF GOD REVEALED. 47 

and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with 
God," we will be the butt of the ridicule of 
demons because of our insane ''doubts." 

And so let us remember that the mistakes 
of Moses are not half so much in our way 
as our own sins. Men of clean j^geph cook, 
heart and strong, vigorous brain ^^^' 
believe the Bible. Joseph Cook, William 
Ewart Gladstone, Jonathan Edwards, Abra- 
ham Lincoln, George Washington, Daniel 
Webster, Louis Agassiz; these are the kind 
of men who pin their faith to the Word of 
God and risk their souls on the veracity of the 
Book of Books. 

God's Word is true. It has stood the 
blasts and billows of centuries, and like a 
strongly -built sea-wall, it still TheBibieRe- 
breasts the giant seas unmoved, ^^^^^' 
immovable. The Voltaires, the Thomas 
Paines, the Rousseaus, the Madame de Staels, 
the sceptics and doubters and jeerers and 
scoffers have gone, or are swiftly going 
beyond this life, but the Bible lives and grows 
in influence every day. 

Some one has compared the Bible to a 



48 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

marble cube. Some self-blown infidel tries 
A Marble ^0 ' ' upset the Bible. ' ' Long years 
^^^®' he strives. But sooner or later, 
whatever his name, Strauss, Renan, or any- 
thing else, Death lifts up a bony hand, and 
pulls him underground, and the cubic Bible, 
four-square and eternally complete, is as 
symmetrical, solid and safe on one side as 
another. 

And there is something in the soul which 
corroborates the Bible's claim to being the 
Blasphemer's exprcsscd will of God. After 
Conscience, ^j^^ most wordy mouthcr of scurril- 
ous blasphemies has left the lecture plat- 
form and gone to his room at the hotel, there 
is something within the mind which says, 
with a leer, ^^ Now, look here, that is all right 
for making money, but, ha ! ha ! ha ! you 
and I know better. It is all very well to 
make those thick-skulls cackle and laugh, 
and feel safe from Death and Hell and 
Judgment for a minute, while the hand- 
clapping goes round the room, but, pshaw ! 
you simply knoiv there is a God and a Hell, 
and you are on the way to a place of misery 



THE WILL OF GOD REVEALED. 49 

this very night. '^ And the man turns on his 
pillow and tries to sleep, but he knows the 
voice is right. Thank God for these voices 
which invite and warn and expostulate and 
entreat, making it possible for a man to seek 
and find the Savior. 



CHAPTER VII. 

GOD AGAINST SIN. 

However difficult it may be for us to 

understand some parts of the Bible, one 

sothBaim thing is sure — it is a book which 

and Vitriol, f o].bi(ig ^ud deuounccs sin. From 

first to last, it is one emphatic protest against 
evil. It takes up all kinds, shades and de- 
grees of iniquity and pronounces God's 
sentence upon them. While it is balm to 
the wounded spirit, it is vitriol and bottled 
lightning to the man who loves sin and is 
determined to retain it in his heart and life. 
Christ is God^s great Revelator. He is 
God projected into the world, making plain 
Magna ^hc will of thc Father concerning 
charta. ^^^^ thoughts aud actions, choices 
and lives. Take, for instance, the Sermon on 
the Mount, which is the Constitution of the 
New Testament Church. Notice how Christ 
attacks sin in this magnificent message. 

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GOD AGAINST SIN. 51 

One of the first sins which Christ singles 
out for condemnation is the sin of anger 
(Matt. V. 22). Of course His audi- Anger- 
tors knew that a man must be ^^^^er. 
punished for manslaughter; but this fearless 
preacher astonished them by the startling 
declaration that anger tvas equivalent to 
murder! Ah, here is a teacher who goes 
deep into the heart, fearing no one and 
courting no one's favor. Anger is murder! 
''Then most of the murderers go unpun- 
ished." Exactly. Have we been angry with 
an unrighteous anger? If so, then we are 
red-handed murderers in the sight of God, 
and in constant danger, unless the blood of 
Jesus covers us. 

Cast your eye over your shoulder and look 
at the years of the past. How frequently you 
have sinned this sin ! You have The Record- 
doubtless been able to restrain ^^^^^i^^^' 
your passion, influenced perhaps by the fear 
of consequences and the disgrace of exposure, 
but murder was in your heart, and the Re- 
cording Angel saw it and took note. 

Another common sin which goes unre- 



52 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

buked in many parts of the country is that 
of adultery. Society abominates 

Adultery. . 

adultery and seduction, and fre- 
quently manifests its abhorrence of these 
crimes by violent measures. It is not uncom- 
mon to find communities where public senti- 
ment holds that three feet of rope or a heavy 
charge of buck-shot are fit reward for the 
scoundrel who violates the honor of woman- 
hood. But this indignation manifests itself 
only against overt acts, while Jesus Christ 
astounds mankind by the assertion that to 
look upon a woman with impure desire is 
adultery. Not only is the act of adultery 
damnable, but unchaste desires and unholy 
feelings are equally devilish and will meet 
the same punishment. 

The most discouraging fact concerning so- 
ciety is that, while it condemns sin by word 
and profession, it commits it in 

Hypocrisy. 

secret. The very people who would 
be deeply mortified by a public cognizance of 
their immorality are frequently low in their 
conversation, vile in their thoughts and bestial 
in their unseen lives. The woman who jerks 



GOD AGAINST SIN. 53 

her skirts aside lest they come in contact 
with those of the street-girl, is frequently no 
better, morally, than her poorer sister whom 
she despises. To God they are all the same, 
and His justice respects no one's person. 

In the 28th verse of the fifth chapter of 
Matthew, Jesus puts Himself on record as 
against all impurity. My dear Thecnrseof 
reader, have you sin upon you ? ^°^* 

Are you guilty of impurity of which you 
have never repented? Are there things 
covered which some day must be revealed to 
your infinite dismay and everlasting shame ? 
Remember that all licentiousness, all lech- 
ery, all lewdness of thought or word or deed, 
call for the blighting, blackening, withering 
curse of Almighty God. 

Profanity is a grave and common evil. 
^' Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord 
thy God in vain;" said Jehovah, 

•^ ' . Profanity. 

and he who uses the name of Deity 
flippantly or as a byword is but whetting a 
knife for his own throat and sharpening a 
stiletto for his own breast. The disrespect- 
ful use of sacred words, the playful use of 



54 TRUMPET-CALLS, 

holy exclamations, are all on the same plane 
of guilt. The sinner who cries out '^Halle- 
jah! "or ''Bless the Lord!" in mimicry of the 
voice of a child of God is simply inviting the 
thunderbolts of God's wrath. 

During a summer tempest there is a flash 
of blinding light, and then a deafening crash, 
struck by ^^^^ somc ouc says, ' ' The lightning 
Lightning. gtruck ucar hcrc. " A traveler is 
found beneath the shattered tree, his body 
swollen and scorched, his hair singed, and 
his eyes wide open and staring. But his 
death was due to a mere electrical discharge — 
a plaything, a toy compared to the curse of 
God on sin. 

In the day of retribution, that awful day 
when all but the blood-covered will weep and 
TheEndofthe wail, mcu will bc struck by the 

Blasphemer. |)]i^(Jj,-^g^ dlzzylug shocks of the 

sky artillery. Bloated with blasphemies, 
with the oath hot upon their lips, they will 
go down into eternal despair. Unwelcome 
though this saying may be, it is God's un- 
changing truth. 

One of the Ten Commandments reads like 



GOD AGAINST SIN. 55 

this: ^' Thou shalt not bear false witness 
against thy neighbor." How 

Lying. 

frequently is this commandment 
broken ! How easy it is for us to tell that 
about others which is not true. A few 
ladies meet for an afternoon tea, and before 
goodbyes are said a number of lies have 
been told and reputations permanently in- 
jured. Dr. Andrews defines a lie as a ' ^ willful 
intent to deceive." Many times there is a 
half-finished sentence, a sly smile, a laugh 
and a wink, and, lo, a false impression is 
made, a good name is injured, and a black 
lie is entered on the celestial books against 
the guilty person. 

Gossip usually gets its spice and interest 
from falsehood. No wonder the Bible con- 
demns tattlers and busybodies so 

*^ . Idle Words. 

severely. The Master said that 
we must give account for every idle ivord. 
One reason why the ''church social" and 
the ''church party " are such scourges to the 
work of God is because scandal and small 
talk and backbiting and falsification run 
rife on these occasions. 



56 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

If you are not glad to see a person, for the 

sake of your own salvation, at least, do not 

lie and say that you are. Do not 

Be Frank. 

ask people to ''call again " if you 
do not wish them to ; for in so doing, you 
are only practising deception and shadowing 
your own soul. 



CHAPTER YIII. 

GOD AGAINST SIN — CONTINUED. 

One of the greatest curses to America is the 
use of alcoholic liquors as a beverage. God 's 
Word declares that no drunkard j^^^^^^ 
shall inherit the kingdom of God. ^""^^"^• 
The man who is drunk all the time, and the 
''moderate drinker" who weakens his mind 
and fires his passions by his secret tippling, 
and all grades between these two men, are 
committing black crimes against God and 
their posterity and manliness and decency 
and all things noble. 

Alcohol is the father of crime in thou- 
sands and thousands of instances. Children 
are born cursed from their father's cursed From 
loins with a thirst for liquor, be- ^^''^^' 
cause their selfish parents drank ' ' a little now 
and then." Look at liquor's harvests : Imbe- 
ciles, Convicts, Thieves, Blacklegs, Dwarfs, 
Scrofulous Systems, etc., etc. And who is 

57 



58 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

to be held accountable for this ? He who 
breaks God's law and sins against his own 
body and offspring by the use of alcohol. 

What havoc drink has wrought ! It has 
made respectable men fit to consort with the 
The Havoc of drcgs of socicty. It has changed 

^^^^^* well-intentioned husbands into 
brutes devilish in their unfeeling cruelty. 
It has made men beat the wives they pro- 
fessed to love. It has weakened the will and 
fired the brute in a man until manhood is 
dead and buried and only the wreck is left. 
Is there freedom from the power of habit and 
appetite ? Yes, thank God ! Lay yourself 
at Jesus' feet in utter submission and com- 
plete confidence in His power and willing- 
ness to save and deliver, and in the twinkling 
of an eye His voice will speak you free. 
Praise the Lord ! 

There is another crime of which many are 
guilty who do not know the taste of liquor. 
The Sin at the Indccd, many of our '' best peo- 

^°^^^' pie" are not free from the foul 
contagion. The hands of many of our preach- 
ers are red with this bloody sin. It is a sin 



GOD AGAINST SIN. 59 

committed at the polls. The saloon-keeper 
says, "May I sell liquor?" and the so-called 
Christian bows his head, drops his vote, and 
says, "Yes ! " Are you a professed disciple 
of Jesus Christ, and yet say "Amen " to the 
liquor traffic ? Shame upon you ! 

"Ah, "you say, "but I must be true to my 
party!" Indeed! "No man can serve 
two masters," and if you are to 

Pftrtv 

serve King Jesus He must have 
precedence over your corrupt political party. 
''Yes," says another self-excuser, ''but 
the issue is bi-metallism, and I must help 
settle this." This is a mistake. The church's 
Satan is blinding the church's ^'''^®''' 
eyes to the true issue. If she were to rise 
up in strength, she could crush this accr.rsed 
traffic from the Isle of Shoals to the Golden 
Gate, and do it at once, but she is hoodwinked 
by political shysters, she is duped by keen 
place-hunters, she is won by the siren voice 
of " sound money, " and the widows continue 
to weep, and the daughters' hearts still ache, 
and the children cry for bread, and the 
prisons keep on filling, and the alms-houses 



60 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

increase in the land, all because the Church 
of Jesus Christ, bought by ''the gold of His 
blood and the silver of His tears, " casts a 
ballot for rum, ruin and damnation, and says 
to the saloon-keeper of foreign birth, ''Go 
to, now, sell liquors and sink our sons in 
drunkards' graves and our daughters into 
dens of infamy; only see to it you give us 
license-money for the privilege we give you!" 
"But I don't want to throw away my 
vote." Look back at old Daniel. He 
A Thrown- sccmcd to throw his vote to the 
Away Vote. j^Qj^g^ but, lo, a little later, and he 
comes out to take a place beside the king and 
help run the kingdom. Jesus Christ seemed 
to throw away His vote, but He conquered sin 
and death and hell, and millions rise up and 
call Him "Redeemer." Better that we 
throw away our votes and keep clean than 
that we help swell the gangrenescent liquor 
count and pollute our souls with the slime of 
Hell. 

Covetousness is a common and pernicious 
evil. It is variously regarded, but by most 
of people it is considered well nigh a virtue. 



GOD AGAINST SIN. 61 

However men may look it, God forbids it 
and hates it. 

To be wishing for some one else's money, 
to desire another's good fortune, to wish you 
owned the fine horses of your worthy of 
neighbor, or the commodious resi- ^^^^^' 
dence of the man across the street, all this 
is damning sin, and worthy only of death. 

Covetousness always causes discontent- 
ment. To be satisfied with what we have is 

truest wisdom, and always char- 
Discontent. 

acteristic of the fully saved heart. 
Remember that those whose fortune you covet 
are just as discontented as yourself. 

Envy is a common and little grieved-over 
sin. Children are taught to envy those above 
them in wealth or social position. 

Envy. 

In order that the boy may save his 
pennies he is told that if he is saving, some 
time he can be a banker or a broker, and have 
plenty of money, and have other men work 
for him; and straightway the child is filled 
with envy of rich men. 

God and man are ever labelling the same 
things differently. Frequently that which 



62 TRUMPET-CALLS . 

man considers desirable and estimable, 
A Decayed Grod condemns and abhors. Man 

^^^' makes envy half a virtue; God 
calls it '^ a rottenness of the bones. " Imagine 
a man whose bones are decayed. The frame- 
work of all his system is rotten. Some 
day the v/hole physical house collapses and 
the putrid carcass drops into the grave. 

Envy grows on one like leprosy. We 

begin by wishing for this and wishing for 

A Growing that — Cultivating a spirit of dis- 

Disease. coutcnt. Gradually we get into 
the habit of scheming how to possess our- 
selves of another's good fortune, and slowly 
the envy-eaten man topples over and is gone. 

It is wonderful how insidious envy is. 
Ministers envy their brethren their reputa- 
tion ; church members envy some 

Hellish Yeast. 

saint his name for goodness ; a 
stammering man envies a fluent speaker his 
ready tongue, and thus the hellish yeast works 
and ferments and brings about damnation. 

Cheating will bring to many a man Judg- 
ment-day pain and remorse. The really 
honest men are rare specimens, though there 



GOD AGAINST SIN. 63 

are plenty who plume themselves on being* 
''fair and square/' professing all 

Cheating. 

things and possessing nothing. 
How easily a man may glide into the habit 
of making money at the unfair expense of his 
fellow-man. Coal merchants who sell ' ' short 
tons" for two thousand pounds, dry goods 
men who have dishonest measures, business 
men who pay their debts at forty cents on the 
dollar, and then live comfortably, will all 
have to meet the stern brow of inexorable 
Justice one of these days. 

It matters not how we cheat, in what man- 
ner the unfairness is practiced, the guilt is 
the same. The man who rides on 

Equal Guilt. 

a single-trip ticket the second 
time through the oversight of a conductor is 
guilty together with the stable-scented jockey 
who swindles in a horse deal. 

The man who sells his time to his employer 
and then idles it away or spends it in looking 
out for his own interests, is a thief. xhe 

He is supposed to be doing all ^"^vioyee. 
possible in the interest of the man who pays 



64 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

him, and he robs whenever he neglects his 

duty in any way. 
The fact that a man is not paid as much as 

he thinks he ought to have, does not palliate 
*' Common h^s offcusc iu casc hc steals from 
Thieves." j^^^ employer. The conductor 

who '^ turns in " only a part of his fares, the 
errand boy who lounges along the street, 
the slippery bank defaulter and Ananias and 
Sapphiras, all belong to the same company, 
and when met by the face of Truth are 
branded by her white-hot iron: '^ Common 
Thieves." 



CHAPTER IX. 

GOD AGAINST SIN — CONCLUDED. 

The employer who pays less wages than he 
can really afford to pay, is as much a robber 
as the red-handed bandits who in- ^he 

fest the caves between Jerusalem ^^pi^yer. 
and Jericho. The principle upon which the 
world does business is, '' Get all you can for 
as little money as you can," and that is a 
devilish, inhuman principle. If a man can 
not be a business man and be honest as 
heaven and clear as a sunbeam, he had better 
quit business. "But I '11 starve ! " Well, 
starve, then, if need be, but die an honest man. 

But it is nonsense to suppose that business 
is necessarily dishonest. Thousands of 
Christian merchants and business christian 
men in the land rise up and tes- ^^^mess. 
tify that dishonesty and trickery do not pay 
in business, and that Christian principles 
are the only principles upon which a solid 



66 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

business can be constructed. If the so-called 
Christian men on whose shoulders rest 
business responsibilities would conscien- 
tiously follow out the principles of the 
kingdom of heaven, in ten years all respect- 
able and legitimate kinds of business would 
be in their hands. 

The century which is just closing, how- 
ever, has not been free from the gravest 
Oppressors of injustlcc and the most impudent 
the Poor. arrogancc on the part of capitalists. 
There are those who sit in cushioned pews, 
and give large sums for '^ beneficence, " 
who grind the faces of the poor, murder 
fathers and husbands in poorly-ventilated 
shops, and stifle the babe and its mother in 
pest-house tenements. Students of sociology 
and slum-workers unite in saying that 
the condition of operatives is, in many 
manufacturing cities, simply disgraceful. 
You need not go far to find samples of the 
effect of greed, for gold. 

Yisit the sweat-shops of lower New York 
with a policeman, and see for yourself. 
Look at the pale-faced mother making 



GOD AGAINST SIN. 67 

aprons, stitching her very life into the gar- 
ment with every turn of the needle. '^Annual 
For whom is she working ? A big ^p^^- ^aie." 
department store up town pays her a few 
cents a dozen for making the aprons. In a 
few weeks there will be an ^^ Annual Apron 
Sale," when the shoppers of the city will 
be ^'invited to look at some wonderful bar- 
gains." And women with plenty of means, 
but who are close and mean, and hard-eyed 
and ''shrewd," will buy aprons once wet 
with the brine of a widow's tears, bedewed 
with the salt tears of a woman as good as 
they, or better, but one to whom the world 
has shown a sour and bitter face. But the 
shoppers buy the aprons, and brag to their 
friends about their ''cheap " purchases. 

"Cheap! Indeed, are they cheap ?" says 
Mr. T. M. Bateman, speaking of the cruelty 
of cheapness. "They who feel a Mr. t. m. 
pleasure in purchasing articles for bateman. 
less than the actual cost of production have 
not the feelings of true, generous people, or 
they would look at the other side of their 
bargains, and they would think why they 



68 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

were so cheap, and would remember that it 
was the cheapness of death to some poor mor- 
tal — death to her wages, to her happiness, to 
her womanhood, to her health, to her hope, 
to her body, to her soul ! 

'' I brand this word 'cheap ' as a lie, for 

the article marked cheap will cost more 

starvation thau the moucy paid for it. It 

^^^®^' costs aching heads, burning eyes, 
crooked fingers, tired limbs, breaking hearts, 
many sighs and rivers of tears. The low 
prices paid to sewing girls and factory hands 
are fearful. A few pennies' pay for making a 
pair of trousers, a waistcoat or a jacket ! No 
wonder that many, shrinking from bitter 
poverty, barter away their virtue and take to 
a life of shame." 

God forbid that any of us should discover 

when too late that our selfishness and pride 

Our have wrecked some young life or 

Selfishness. (Jro^ncd somc youthful battler in 

the seething seas of sin and wretchedness. 

Let us remember that sin is sin, and can 
not remain covered. It will out at last to our 
infinite dismay. God beholds sin, and no 



GOD AGAIMST SIN. 69 

thought, or desire, or feeling is hid from 
Him. The sin which no one knows 

Sin is Sin. 

but God and the sinner who sins 

Yvill be dealt with as severely as the sin in a 

public square. 

Oh, the rottenness and putrefaction that fes- 
ter underneath the feverish scab of appear- 
ances! There are men all around siimeand 
us fair in appearance, devilish at ^°^^°^' 
heart. They gain access into Christian homes, 
they move in ' ' good society, ' ' yet their minds 
are putrid and vile. Slime and poison fill 
their minds, and their imaginings are soaked 
in lust. They are smooth men, these well- 
dressed Mephistoes, these unhorned and un- 
hoofed devils ; yet God's eyes pierce their 
mask, and their lechery and leprosy are as 
plain to Him as the type of this book. One 
may escape the hand of human courts, but 
the fingers of divine justice are like clamps of 
steel. 

Hypocrisy is the meanest sin that affronts 
God and mocks the pure heavens, a crouching 
it creeps upon society stealthily, digress, 
like a crouching tigress. It is leprosy care- 



70 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

fully concealed by plasters and paint ; it 
is small-pox rouged and hidden ; it is Hell 
let loose in the night, and fevers spreading in 
the mists that lie on the face of the Swamp 
of the World's Evil. 

One of the sins which hypocrites especially 
espouse is dancing. Have you not heard 

Lustful people say, ''I see no harm in 

Dancers. dauclug ' ' ? ThEY LIED WEEN THEY 

SAID IT. Any one who knows anything at all 
about dancing knows that it breeds lust, and 
awakens passions that make them of kin 
with the brute. Dancers know this. Only 
people foul at heart and gangrenescent in 
their secret life say, ^^ I dance, and do n't 
think it wrong." The woman who dances 
simply advertises her own pollution. Ten to 
one the wife who frequents the ball-room is 
faithless in heart to her husband and damns 
her own children before they are born. 

Public sentiment is at last awakening on 
this subject, and even people who are not 

Public Christians are seeing the evil this 
Sentiment. g|^.^y pleasurc works. 

Is there a thing more inconsistent than to 



GOD AGAINST SIN. 71 

see a grey-haired mother, a member of a 
church, defending dancing ? She impurity's 
is simply saying to Impurity, ^'^^®' 
''Creep into the heart of my daughters, and 
turn their innocence into vinegar and fire. 
Capture the bodies of my sons, and drag them 
away to 'the house of the strange woman.' " 

Chiefs of Police say that dancing fills the 
houses of ill-fame ; slum workers tell the 
same sad story of dance-hall and i^^g^^g 
lost virtue ; sociologists who study ^^^^aces. 
crime report the same finding, and thus we 
are left without excuse. The indiscriminate 
familiarity of the dance can not but smirch 
the marble v^hiteness of the heart, and they 
who emerge from the sooty chimneys of lust's 
furnaces may imagine they are clean, but all 
the world knows their shame. 

Objections of much the same nature debar 
the decent man or woman from the theatre. 
There may have been a time when 

1 . . The Stage. 

the stage was a legitimate educa- 
tional factor — certain good men claim this — 
but that day is past, and the average play of 



72 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

the present is such that no pure woman can 
look upon it without crimsoning. 

It is the play filled with lewdness that 
makes "a good house," The faces of those 

irving's who emerge from the theatre doors 
Practice. ^^^ ^j^^ f accs of pcoplc upou whom 

unbridled passion is doing its worst. Irving, 
the celebrated playwright, knew enough 
about the effects of theatre-going to forbid his 
daughters' attendance even at his own per- 
formances. But the sons and daughters of 
church members are allowed to attend these 
unclean exhibits unrestrained and unrebuked. 
Is it not true that ''the children of this 
world are wiser in their generation " than 
the professed followers of the pure Christ? 
Another sin which will not fail to damn 
men in the great Pay-Day is that of vulgar 
conversation. It would be sur- 

Vnlgarity. . . . 

prismg were it known how many 
are guilty of this sin. The guilty ones would 
represent all classes, from the smutty punster 
who pollutes the society of the club hearth 
to the female gossip who sits at the tea table 
and discusses sacred subjects in an indelicate 



GOD AGAINST SIN. 73 

way. This blight of foul talk and loose con- 
versation never fails to take all the fineness 
and delicacy from the soul. It corrupts and 
destroys all the taste for pure beauty and 
unsullied nobleness. Better that one make 
one's dinners from the garbage of the street 
than that one listen to the coarse tattle of 
low souls. 

One cause for shunning "evil communi- 
cations " is to be found in its effect not only 
upon ourselves, but upon others. The contagion 
The mother who says a word lack- °^ ^'''' 
ing in purity and elevation of moral tone be- 
fore her child need not be surprised if she 
see her offspring become a prey to the most 
depraved and soul-destroying passions. The 
man who swears before his child lacks in 
both taste and sense. If he had better taste 
he would loathe swill ; if he had more sense 
he would not pour vitriol into the soul of the 
child to scald the heart of its parent in later 
life. The truthful Christ, who can not lie, 
has said that we must ''give account for 
every idle word. " What did we say yester- 
day ? How are we conducting the conversa 



74 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

tion of to-day ? It behoves us that we speak 
our words with care, lest out of our own 
mouths we should be condemned. 

All sin is going to meet with justice at the 
hand of the Judge of all the earth. At the 
Day of Judgment, all the unrecog- 
nized criminals will be made mani- 
fest. All who have sinned in the dark and 
said ^' Amen " in the daylight, all who have 
professed one thing and lived another, all 
who have made official positions instru- 
ments of selfish gain, all who have incensed 
God with lies and falsifications, all who have 
made vows and have not paid them, all these 
God will judge in righteousness before the 
astounded universe. 

Let us not forget that God hates sin, 

and all the world is going to see ultimately 

Unbiased ^^at Hc hatcs it. We may not be 

^^'^^^^' convinced now. At present, the 
wicked, God-hating man may seem to thrive 
and flourish. Apparently, God favors the 
shyster as much as the honest man. Indeed, 
it sometimes seems as if integrity was re- 
warded by calamity. But these are only ap- 



GOD AGAINST SIN. 75 

pearances. God is on the side of righteous- 
ness and YiiW vindicate it at the last. God 
hates sin with an imperishable hatred, and 
there is no excuse that will shield the im- 
penitent from the fury of His anger. The 
day ¥/ill come when the immeasurable throng 
that shall stand before God's marble throne, 
convinced of His justice and unbiased equity, 
will cry out with those of Carmel, ''The 
Lord, He is the God ! The Lord, He is the 
God!" 



CHAPTER X. 

THE JUDGMENT. 

It is very evident that there is a need of 
a general Judgment Day, a time of moral 

Complex reckoning and divine penology. 
Relationships, j^ ^^^ g^^^ ^^ace, the Very com- 
plexity of human affairs demands a day 
when things shall be untangled. Our rela- 
tionships are so numerous, so diverse and so 
complicated that only a divine and om- 
niscient eye can see things as they are, and 
only divine wisdom can mete out rewards 
and punishments. 

A man's influence in the world does not 
end when they put his body in the cemetery. 

Pent-up He has influenced every soul with 

Forces. ^hom hc evcr came in contact, 
^^id all the actions of his life have been a 
series of pent-up forces, whose power is 
boundless, immeasurable. 

Yoltaire is living to-day in his influences. 

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THE JUDGMENT. 77 

Look at the demonized face of the poor 
French infidel. His soul is get- p^ui and 
ting redder every day with the ^^itaire. 
crimson tide of lost souls. St. Paul is still 
blessing the world. The company of white 
spirits, who owe inspiration and help to him, 
is on the increase. A soul flashes into the 
world like a spark, burns awhile, dims, and 
disappears ; but the light started by the 
moment's burning goes out across the silences 
of the Uniyerse, and extends to the utmost 
boundaries of God's creation. 

If a star was to go out to-day it might be 
years, yea, centuries, before the astronomers 
at the Lick Observatory would Drawing or 
notice any change. The light set "^^^"^^^s- 
flashing down toward earth ages ago is only 
just now reaching us. Though a man die 
to-day, his influence goes on until the Judg- 
ment, either drawing toward or driving from 
the Cross of Christ. 

The effect of a life is incommensurable. 
You have a servant in your house. ^ Lost 
She performs her service, but you ^pp^^^^^^^y- 
never speak to her about her soul's sal- 



78 TRUZviPET-CALLS. 

vatioii. She wishes you would, but your op- 
portunity goes by and is lost forever. She 
comes to have no respect for a religion which 
is as selfish as yours seems to be. She has a 
little son at home. She brings him up with- 
out prayer, without God. He becomes a 
man, vile, blasphemous, filthy, drunken. In 
a row in a Bowery saloon his throat is cut 
from ear to ear. Who did the deed? The 
man with the razor helped. Who helped 
him ? The prayerless mother. Who helped 
her ? You, a professed folloitwr of the Son 
of God. 

Life is a tangled net. ''No man liveth to 

himself, and no man dieth to himself." All 

A Tangled ^^e dccds of Kfc are interwoven 

^®^' and intimately connected. Many 

a man owes his salvation to the prayers of 
an obscure saint, who lived, fasted and 
prayed two hundred years ago; and many a 
poor fellow puts the pistol to his temple and 
spatters his brains against the wall, who 
was helped to the deed by a giggling, sim- 
pering, unholy church member. 

Goodness and badness spread infinitely. 



THE JUDGMENT. 79 

A good deed will never die. The woman 
who anointed the feet of Jesus 

Ointment. 

is to-day in the Paradise of God, 

but the ''odour "of her kind act ''fills" not 

only " the house, " but the Christian world. 

' ' How far that little candle throws its beams 1 
So shines a good deed in a naughty world." 

The life of Catherine Booth was filled 
with beautiful deeds. "When she lay in 
her coffin in Congress Hall," says Catherine 
Mrs. Morrow, "ministers, Mem- ■^°°*^" 
bers of Parliament and half-starved chil- 
dren of the slums were alike eager for a last 
look upon the face they loved. Roughs 
passed her weeping. Lost girls turned from 
her side and begged to be taken where they 
could begin to lead a new life. 'That wo- 
man lived for me, ' a poor drunkard cried in 
anguish. They drew him aside, and on his 
knees he accepted pardon and promised that 
her God should be his. 

"Three men knelt together at the head of 
her coffin one night and poured 

^ ^ "My Boys!" 

out their penitence to Cod and 

went out of the hall saved. A tottering o'.d 



80 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

woman stood so long looking down on the 
still, white face, that an officer gently asked 
her to move on. 'No, no,' she said, 'let 
others move on. I've a right to stop. I've 
come sixty miles to see her again. She saved 
my boys.' " 

Such a life as Mrs. Booth's will never die. 
As the years lengthen into centuries, should 

A Just ^"^ Lord delay His coming thus 

Reward. long, hcr life will only be accru- 
ing new rewards and more benedictions. 
Who can compute the good her life will do ? 
God only, and at the Judgment she will re- 
ceive a ^' just recompence of reward." 

It is equally true that a bad life goes on 
rolling up a mountain of guilt and damna- 

Thomas tlou fcarful iu height and weight. 

pame. Youdcr is a long sad line of dark 
faces and forms. They are in the gall of bit- 
terness, in the bondage of death and despair. 
They have rejected God and hissed the 
name of Jesus in derision; but now, filled 
with foreboding and fear, they are called 
upon to meet the God of Judgment. And 
who is the man who heads the company and 



THE JUDGMENT. 81 

seems to have had influence over them? 
That is the author of '^ The Age of Keason." 
You remember that he himself, when dying, 
sought to have the book destroyed, but his 
infidel friends disregarded his last request. 
Behold the fruit of his life in these damned 
souls ! 

Who will be our Judge on that day ? None 
other than Jesus Christ. The Christ whom 
sinners have rejected, the Lamb jesns as 
whose wounds reddened the earth ^''^^^' 
at Calvary, the Savior and Redeemer of the 
world, will appear in a new office and per- 
form a work vastly different from any He 
has undertaken previous to that time. 

Oh, sinner, tremble ! The meek and lowly 
Jesus, who stood so long at the door of thy 
heart knocking for admittance, is smner, 
no longer calling thee to repent- Trembiei 
ance. The day of repentance is past, and 
only remorse is thy heritage. Remember 
the occasions when, under the earnest preach- 
ing of God's Word, thy heart was touched. 
Those were thy opportunities ; but Christ 
was put off with the words, ''Not to-night." 



82 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

Kecall the voice of the Spirit that fell so 
often upon thy ear and was unheeded. All 
that is past, and Christ is Judge. 

Look at the Judge ! He is no longer the 

scourged and tortured victim of Jewish hate 

No Longer ^^^ Romau brutality. He is not 

Mocked. ^^^^ standing with bowed head 
before hard-faced Pilate. His face is 
neither pale with a death-like whiteness nor 
streaked with dried blood and spittle. His 
regal form is not mocked by the irony 
of borrowed purple. Nay, nay, not thus is 
He to be seen, but with eye of fire and form 
of God He rivets the gaze of all eyes and 
compels the reverence of all hearts. 

To-day Christ is slighted and maltreated. 
Men do unto Him as they please. He is 
The Slighted ruled out of society and expelled 

Christ. fpom the boards of trade and 
ejected from the stylish churches ; but all this 
will be very different ere long. '^Calm, 
level-headed business men " will writhe and 
welter under the iron feet of righteous retri- 
bution ; ladies of society, who pride them- 
selves on their calm and undisturbed be- 



THE JUDGMENT. 83 

havior, will in that day of fury scream like 
Bedlam and Pandemonium, while black- 
robed prelates and unfaithful preachers will 
long for death, and will not find it. 



CHAPTER XI. 

THE JUDGMENT — CONTINUED. 

It is, of course, impossible for us to im- 
agine the fearful character of the Day of 
Judgment Judgmciit. After we have collected 
Terror. ^|| ^.j^^ information concerning it 

which Scripture gives us ; after we have 
taken into account the horrific nature of 
awakened memory ; after we have reflected 
on the shaming effect of the revelation of all 
secret things, there remains to the Judgment 
a mysterious, nightmare-like terror that no 
mind can at present conceive. 

It will be an awful day — a day of blackness 

and thick clouds ; a day of anger and divine 

An Awful wrath ; a day of final decision of 

^^^' destiny and the end of all proba- 
tion; the focal point of all past days. 

The end of earthly institutions will be 
seen when the throne of God is set ; mon- 
archies will crumble, and totter, and go 

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THE JUDGMENT. 85 

down in the mortar-dust of their own debris; 
democracies and great and grand 

Like Leaves. 

governments will shatter like fine- 
blown glass, and the hearts of all men will 
tremble like leaves in the wind. 

Oh, the disclosures of that day ! Secret 
things will be revealed, unseen things will 
come to light. Reader, are you 

A Sad Hour. 

willmg to have the secret work of 
your imagination emblazoned upon the black- 
board of the Universe like stars on the flag 
of the Republic? Young man, do you rel- 
ish the thought of your pure mother know- 
ing the vileness of your desires ? Oh, sad, 
sad hour for all who live double lives ; for 
husbands who break the vows of matrimony 
and crawl into the sewers of filth ; for wives 
for whom chastity and honor have no at- 
traction ; for deceivers and moral sleight-of- 
hand performers who bless with their lip 
and countenances, but slay and kill on the 
sly. 

Take, for purpose of illustration, the fol- 
lowing incident, a single example of thou- 
sands like it : A gentleman on K Street, 



86 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

in an Eastern city, a member of a large 
A Popular ^^^ fashionable church, has ''an 
''Christian." ^^^^i^ble rcputation " for morality 
and beneficence. His acquaintances and 
neighbors respect and honor him. The 
preacher, bland and suave, makes frequent, 
prayerless calls upon his popular and influen- 
tial parishioner, and, whether coming or 
going, always smiles. He informs this im- 
portant member of his congregation that he 
is ''one of the weightiest and strongest of 
his pillars." 

The man dies amid tears and is buried 

with flowers. His home is sold ; alterations 

are made in the house : the posi- 

Walled Up. . . 

tion of a wall of masonry is 
changed, and there, walled up in a cavity, 
the workmen find the skeleton of a man 
murdered and secreted by the dead church 
member. 

All are not guilty of so notorious and 

black a crime, but there are few families and 

few individuals who do not have 

Skeletons. 

skeletons which will appear at 
Judgment to the woe and disaster of the 



THE JUDGMENT. 87 

guilty. '^ Secret things shall be revealed." 
Oh, sinner, confess your sins now ! Drag 
your skeletons out of their hiding holes 
while there is yet opportunity to procure 
pardon! Jesus will forgive if you '^confess 
and forsake'^ your sins. Better that men 
talk about us now, and make our ears tingle 
with embarrassment in the present, than that 
Eternity be spent amid the hissing of hell's 
serpents. 

Let us stand on the vast plain before God's 
Judgment throne. There are some fearful 
sights here. Yonder is a sinner ^^^^i 
burying his face in his hands and ^'^^^^* 
moaning like a dying man. ^'0 hide me 
from those pure eyes," he shrieks, ''the eyes 
of Him that sitteth upon the throne ! " 

Strange that this man should be so ex- 
cited. He has an unblemished reputation. 
His wife and sons and daughters 

''0 my God!" 

love him tenderly. Why should 
the Judgment Day arouse his fears ? Ask 
him. He does not hear. Ask him again. 
His answer is moaned out, ''() my God ! 
my God ! my God ! " Put your question 



88 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

again. He looks up with the face of a fiend 
filled with terror and remorse. At last he 
says: ''Oh, sir, "and the words are wrung 
from him like teeth from the jaw ; ''Oh sir, 
men call me good ! Ha, ha ! " (This laugh- 
ter chills the blood of the hearer.) "What 
a lie ! I am not good. I am black as the 
bottomless Pit. Why, sir, I am the father of 
an unoivned^ bastard son.'''' 

" The world does not know that I am base. 

My wife does not know it. I kept the thing 

''In the hushed up. My family could never 

^°^^^*" have raised their heads again if the 
matter had been known, but now, God, 
God, God ! help me ! help me ! I am in the 
toils of judgment, and the revelation of all 
things is at hand. '^ 

Yes, the revelation will come, and this 
man^s sad plight will be that of many a poor 

Many a soul. What Startling disclosures 

PoorSonl ^-jj ^^ ^^^^ j ^^^^ drCadful 

facts will come to light ! What strange 
mysteries will be explained ! 

Christ will sit on His throne before teem- 
ing millions of souls, each individual, if 



THE JUDGMENT. 89 

guilty, wincing and cringing beneath the 
red-hot needle of His piercing gaze. The Face of 
There will be no escape from ^^"^** 
that countenance. The face that attracted 
the children was the same face that looked 
on Peter and melted his heart so that "he 
went out and wept bitterly," and the same 
face will fill the impenitent with horror and 
fear, and cause them to cry out to rocks and 
mountains to fall on them. 

Who will be present ? All the murderers 
that the world has ever seen will be there 
for judgment and sentence. Pom- ^ho wm Be 
eroy says, in one of his sermons : There i 
''There will be there all the great man-mon- 
sters who have reveled in carnage and 
waded ankle-deep in blood. The iron-hearted 
Pharaoh, the king slave-driver of olden times ; 
the cruel Herod ; Xerxes, that world in 
arms who convulsed the Roman Empire and 
stripped three bushels of golden rings from 
her slaughtered lords ; Alexander, who drove 
his wheels hub-deep in blood and begirt the 
globe with the track of ruin ; Caesar, who 
laid in waste eight hundred cities and mur- 



90 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

dered a million of his brethren ; Bonaparte, 
who filled the world with the terror of his 
name, and deluged Europe in tears — all will 
be there, but not now to awe down ranks 
and armies, but there in sad dismay. 

'' Infidels will be there with the revilers of 
Christ and His religion, and all that race of 
scoflr and God-haters who make bywords of 
Blasphemy. Jehovah's titles, gloating over the 
sacred names of Him who died for them, 
speaking ''Christ" and ''Jesus" with a 
demon greed, smacking satisfaction from 
scoff and blasphemy. 

"Backsliders will be there to see Him 
who once forgave all their sins — 

Backsliders. 

to whom they once did pray, of 
whom they sang and talked." 

What regrets will fill the heart of the back- 
slider ! How sadness will cover him like 

Past ^ cloud when he remembers his 

Opportunities, gjightcd and neglected opportuni- 
ties. The same eminent preacher quoted 
above, addressing backsliders, says: "You 
have trod under foot your Savior, and counted 
the blood of the covenant wherewith you were 



THE JUDGMENT. 91 

sanctified an unholy thing, and ' done despite 
to the spirit of grace.' I look a little for- 
ward, and, behold, you are at the Judgment. 
Yes, you are there in murderous blood — the 
mark is on you — it is on your feet. How hard 
you trod Him down when you treated with 
contempt His salvation ! Oh, how drabbled 
in Atonement blood you are ! 

'^As these blood-spotted multitudes are 
made to face retribution, I seem to see re- 
strained lightning grow restless Biood-spotted 
and fiery. Oh, how its forkedness ^^i^^^^^^^- 
shoots out like adders' tongues — lurid and 
red, all tremulous with charged damnations, 
as if in haste to be avenged on that spotted 
throng. How Atonement blood on feet stirs 
the vials of ivrath. But they are there aghast. 

'^Though here they may not only deny 
Christ, but deny their conversion also, and 
glory in the concealment of former The Mark is 
days when they prayed and praised, ^"^ ^^®®' 
swearing it all a lie ; but the mark is on thee, 
backslider! And though thou mightest 
mix with common sinners and heathens vast, 
and think to pass for one of them, yet the 



92 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

rankling arrows in Jehovah's quiver would 
give signs of the approach of spotted feet 
in that crowd. 

''Wrath holds a steady aim on thee, 
backslider. Now, my brother man, come 
The Crash is back to Him whom you know, 

Coming. ^hom you have proved to be Jesus. 
Ask Him to take you in ! Come under shel- 
ter ! Hide away in the clefts of the rock be- 
fore the storm day comes ! For the crash of 
its coming is already heard ! The dark por- 
tent gets darker and nearer ! 0, my friend, 
get out of these Thunder Roads ! I say, Get 
Out, Quick ! For you are approaching God 
on the challenge side, where He is a consum- 
ing fire. No one going this way ever re- 
turned. Do not stay here ! You attract light- 
ning and wrath ! The very thunders rock at 
sight of thee ! Going to Judgment with 
bloody feet, fresh from the treadings on 
Jesus Christ, puts all the enginery of ruin 
astir as if impatient of the sentence, 'De- 
part.' " 

Another class will be present to their infi- 
nite confusion and dismay. The people who 



THE JUDGMENT. 93 

li^ave had great light and rejected it will fare 
hardly at the Judgment. ^'I had Eesponsibmty 
rather, ' ' says Henry Clay Morrison, °^ ^'^^^• 
'^go up to Judgment from the jungles of 
Africa, with the bone of a missionary in my 
hand than from a holiness camp or a full sal- 
vation convention, having rejected the light 
of truth." We are responsible for all the 
light God gives us, and he who sits obdurate 
and stiff-necked under a Holy Ghost ministry 
will reap a damnation fearful in proportion 
to the inexcusableness of his course. May 
God help you and me to make ready for the 
searching scrutiny and severe examinations 
of that day. 



CHAPTER XII. 

EXCUSES. 

The moment a man sins he begins to cast 

about for something to excuse his action and 

The Cause of ^ ^^^ ^im f Fom blamc. As long as 

Excuses. j^^ j^g right, he is right, and feels 

no need of anything to bolster up his profes- 
sion of innocence ; but when he sins, he feels 
instinctively that he will be interrogated 
concerning his act, and therefore fortifies 
himself with excuses. 

An excuse differs from a reason. There is 
no real reason why a man should play the 
Excuses not f^^l ^^^ ucglcct Christ's salva- 

Reasons. ^^^^^ . ^ynt thc avcrago sinner 

abounds in excuses, which he is eager to push 
forward in defense of his course. Sin is un- 
justifiable and irrational, but every sinner has 
a pet excuse which he esteems positively im- 
pregnable. 
No sooner did God question Adam than he 

94 



EXCUSES. 95 

blamed the woman, and she in turn slan- 
dered the Serpent. It is not nat- shifting the 
ural for depraved human nature ^^^^^' 
to say frankly, '^ 1 am to blame ; I am a sin- 
ner, inexcusable, willful, and deserving of 
hell." 

You remember the parable which Christ 
related '^in the house of one of the chief 
Pharisees" — the parable of the The Great 
great supper. That servant who supper. 
bade men to the feast was met by some 
strange excuses in the course of his round of 
calls. All of them were weak, if not absurd. 
Like most of the excuses tendered by the im- 
penitent, they were too thin to hide the self- 
ishness that created them. 

There was the man who had just bought a 
new piece of land, and who ''must needs go 
see it." Foolish buyer; why did Fooush 
he buy without knowing the nature ^^^®^' 
of the property? Why refuse a banquet 
without knowing what was to be served ? 

All over the country men are selling out 
their chance of eternal salvation for fields 
and farms and books and money and fame 



96 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

and applause and a thousand and one 
things that are soon to perish like toad- 
stools in a scorching sun. 

One of the most popular excuses with the 

unconverted is : The Christians do not live 

Consistency theiv religiou. In the first place, 

in Christians. j^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ -^ ^^^ ^^^^ f ^^^^ ^^ 

Christians who live their salvation, you have 
kept poorer company than some of us. It 
has been granted unto at least a few of us to 
know those who live consistent, conscientious. 
Christian lives ; whose desire is God's glory 
and the good of man ; who 

Speak no evil, nay, nor listen to it; 

who bear the cares and griefs of life with 
sweet, patient grace, and bring the light of 
heaven into this poor, dark world of ours. 

And then it is to be doubted whether a sin- 
ner is a competent person to judge whether 
2^ot a man is a real Christian or not. 

Competent Remember that an unsaved man 
is an alien, a person without eyes, a creature 
without spiritual feeling, a soul without life ; 
and consider whether or no he is the one 



EXCUSES. 97 

fitted to judge of the nature of a Christian's 
life. Like the cow in the fable, who was 
said to have eaten straw for grass, because 
her owner put green spectacles over her eyes, 
the sinner sees everything through the green 
glasses of his own corrupt nature. 

The Word of the Lord says that ''to the 
defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure, but 
even their own mind and con- ^ Desied 
science is defiled. " With a defiled ^^"'• 
mind and an unhealthy conscience, how can a 
sinner judge of the consistency of Christian 
life ? But if we were to grant that all Chris- 
tians were inconsistent and failed to ''live 
their religion, " would that excuse the sinner 
from doing the best he can ? Do other men's 
inconsistencies excuse him from the duties 
he owes to God and man ? 

" There are too many hypocrites^''' shouts an 
arrogant objector. Indeed ! Then why not 
get converted, and show them cheats and 
there can be such a thing as a ^^^°'^' 
genuinely honest man? If there are coun- 
terfeits, produce the real gold and put the 
shams to shame. You say that you "do not 



98 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

want to keep company with hypocrites. " All 
hypocrites are going to hell, and, unless you 
repent and are converted, you will spend 
your eternity in the same place. If you 
would escape the companionship of cheats 
and pretenders, seek genuine salvation. 

The very existence of counterfeits argues 

the existence of a genuine coin. If there are 

hypocrites, there must be real 

Genuine Coin. ^i . . o< 

Christians, or batan would not 
make the spurious money. 

Frequently Christian workers are told by 

those whom they urge to repent, that they ^ We 

Aninten- good cuough, " and are ''not so 

tionalLiar. ^^^.^ ^^^^ n ^^^ u ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ 

you Christians." Usually the person who 
makes this speech is a liar, and knows it. 
We talk of these ''moral men who don't 
need religion!" Most of them are vile as 
vomit in their hearts, and more deserving of 
hell than the sot in the saloon. Away with 
such subterfuge and falsification ! God will 
find thee out yet, thou mouther of black false- 
hood. Thou mayst whitewash thy tomb as 
did the Pharisees the tombs of the Fathers, 



EXCUSES. 99 

but the rains will destroy the thin profes- 
sion, the freezing water will crack open thy 
mausoleum and all the town will see the 
I'otting carcasses. 

The man who prides himself on his ^'hon- 
esty" has usually nothing of which to be 
proud. The ''honesty "of the Dishonest 
world is a hollow, spectacular af- ^®°^^®* 
fair, with neither body nor bones. It is ani- 
mated with a desire to appear honest. It 
will make a great parade of itself when its 
possessor finds a pocket-book, but it will 
ride in a trolley-car for nothing when the car 
is crowded and the conductor fails to collect 
the fare. It will applaud itself for great 
integrity because it does not keep too much 
change when a mistake is made in reckoning, 
but it will oppress in their wages a poor em- 
ployee, a seamstress, or a servant girl. It is 
the little thing in the life that indicates the 
principle of the heart; and if a man will do a 
dishonest thing that will '' never be known, " 
be it ever so ''little," he has no principle of 
honesty. 



100 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

^' I had it once^ hut lost it ^^^ say some in 

speaking of salvation, ^^ and I am afraid I 

Keep canH keep it.'^ There is hope for 

s^^^i^^- you. The fact that you had it 
once ought to assure you that its possession 
is again possible. Your present condition is 
dangerous, frightfully so. There is no hope 
for you in your present inactive attitude. 
Better that you become saved every morn- 
ing and backslide every night, than that you 
spend your life hopelessly and inevitably 
under the sentence of death and condemna- 
tion. If you have lost your experience, seek 
again. Perchance God v^ill take you to 
heaven during one of your saved periods. 

But, oh, friend, there is a better life than 

this. Surrender completely to the Master, 

The ''Cans- trust the clcansiug blood implic- 
ing" Power, -^jy^ ^^^.j q^^ ^j^^^ ^^^ keeping of 

you is His business, and that you expect 
Him to do it, walk in all the light that comes, 
seek and find a clean heart, and you will dis- 
cover that God has put His Spirit within and 
is ^^ causing you to walk in His statutes." 
Praise the Lord ! 



EXCUSES. 101 

There are those who say that they are too 
had to be saved, and that their case is beyond 
hope. Thanks be unto God that to the utter- 
this is not true. God's power is °^ost-Aii. 
infinite; His grace can not be bounded. He is 
'' able to save to the uttermost all that come 
unto God by him. " The only condition is, 
that you come to God through Jesus, meet- 
ing the conditions and trusting His power. 
It matters not how black your heart, nor how 
vile your life, the grace of God is fully equal 
to all your sin. 

How frequently does Satan secure a soul 
because it is persuaded that ^Hhere is time 
enough yet.'''' Time is such an un- «.Time 
certain thing. No man knoweth Enough!" 
what a day will bring forth. Life may not 
last long for you. You are sure of no time 
but the present moment. God's time is 
NOW., and for you to put Him off is to run 
your frail boat into danger. 

An unsaved man in an Ohio town had been 
frequently warned of his danger. An unsaved 
He was repeatedly told of the aw- ^'''^' 
ful peril in which he put his soul by pro- 



102 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

crastination. He rejected Christ. He wanted 
to make a little more money than he had 
been making, so he prepared his hard cider 
to sell to the boys at the county fair. Before 
he had sold a glass his body was a mangled 
corpse, jammed and jellied by the crush of 
heavy barrels rolled upon him in a tossing 
wagon drawn by runaway horses. Play at 
dice with the devil with your soul at stake, 
and he will always win, for his dice are 
loaded. 

A flimsy excuse, often made by the awak- 
ened sinner, is, ^^ I shall he made fun of if I 
Consummate hecome a Christian.'" Oh, thou 

^°^^^' cowardly soul, wouldst thou do 
without eternal, never-ending salvation, 
because of thy fear of the smile of scorn, the 
finger pointed in ridicule, the taunting word ? 
What consummate folly ! There are but a 
few years here at most, but beyond the River 
there is no end to time ! Think upon Eter- 
nity. Count the cost. What tremendous 
things hang upon the way thou believest and 
livest here ! Dare opposition, defamation, 
loss of friends, unpopularity, anything or 



EXCUSES. 103 

everything, but do not let Christ turn from 
the door uninvited to enter. 

''J want to enjoy the world.'' How empty 
this excuse ! You risk your soul for the 
pleasure of a few moments of sin. ^n Empty 
How insane is it for us to trade ^^cnse. 
eternal weal for the gilt and tinsel of 
worldly joys ! Pray do not insult your bet- 
ter nature and saner moments. 

A very few objectors to present salvation 
excuse themselves by saying that the Bible 
is an immoral book. No charge ^ Boomerang 
could be more false and none could cnticism. 
reflect more certainly to the discredit of the 
morals of the speaker. There are even so- 
called ministers who find fault with the Holy 
Scripture on this score. In this connection 
let me quote the sound words of one of the 
great preachers of the age: 

^'Some say there are things in the Bible 
unfit to be read. Now, I have to say that, if 
a man is shocked with what he ^ pmrient 
calls the indelicacies of the Word ^^'^'• 
of God, he is prurient in his taste and imag- 
ination. If a man can not read the book of 



104 TRUMPET-C ALLS. 

Solomon's Song without impure suggestion, 
he is either in his heart or in his life a liber- 
tine. The Old Testament description of 
wickedness, uncleanness of all sorts, is pur- 
posely and righteously a disgusting account, 
instead of the Byronic and the Parisian ver- 
nacular, which makes sin attractive instead 
of appalling. When those old prophets 
point you to a lazaretto, it is a lazaretto. 

''When a man, having begun to do right, 
falls back into wickedness and gives up his 

Plain integrity, the Bible does not say 
Pictures. j^^ ^^g overcome by the fascina- 
tions of the festal board, or that he surren- 
dered to convivialities, or that he became a 
little fast in his habits. 1 will tell you what 
the Bible says : ' The dog is turned to his 
own vomit again, and the sow that was 
washed to her wallowing in the mire.' No 
gilding of iniquity. No garlands on a 
death's head. No pounding away with a sil- 
ver mallet at iniquity, when it needs an iron 
sledge hammer. 

''I can easily understand how people, 
brooding over the description of uncleanness 



EXCUSES. 105 

in the Bible, may get morbid in mind, until 
they are as full of it as the wings carboiic 
and the nostril and the claw of ^^^^' 
a buzzard are full of the odors of a carcass; 
but what is wanted is not that the Bible be 
disinfected, but that you have your heart and 
mind washed with carbolic acid ! I tell you 
that a man who does not like this Book, and 
who is critical as to its contents, and who is 
shocked and outraged with its descriptions, 
has never been soundly converted. The lay- 
ing on of the hands of presbytery or episco- 
pacy does not change a man's heart, and 
men sometimes get into the pulpit, as well 
as into the pew, never having been changed 
radically by the sovereign grace of God. 
Get your heart right and the Bible will be 
right." 

My unsaved friend, there is absolutely no 
good excuse for your remaining unsaved. 
Your circumstances are no worse than those 
of many another soul. At any rate, God 
knows your circumstances, and when He 
asks you to repent and believe in Jesus He 



106 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

not only fathoms the depth of your difficulty, 
but will give you grace to overcome. 

Throw away your excuses. They are value- 
less—worse than nothing. Fall at Jesus' 
feet, pleading, not your worthiness, but His 
atonement. Cast yourself entirely on His 
mercy, and He will blessedly save you. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

REPENTANCE. 

There is nothing which has a more impor- 
tant and necessary place in the plan of sal- 
vation than repentance, and yet, Repentance 
strange to say, there is nothing shnnned. 
the discussion of which is more scrupulously 
avoided, and the preaching of which is more 
generally neglected, than this same theme. 
This is due to a number of reasons : First, 
for a man to repent implies a break in the 
habit of life and mind. Habits are like 
chains, and hold us with an almost unbreak- 
able power. It is no easy thing for a man 
to '^ right about face," and stem the current 
of his whole past and force himself to a nev/ 
condition of affairs. 

Again, repentance is unwelcome to the 
sinning individual, because, in 

Unwelcome. 

order for a man to repent, he must 

confess that he is a sinner and in need 

107 



108 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

of salvation. The unregenerate soul is al- 
ways proud. The absence of anything of 
which to be proud does not embarrass it in 
the least. Just to own up '' I am a sinner " 
is one of the hard things ^ man has to do to 
repent. 

Before a man can truly repent he must be 
sorry that he sinned — not sorry that he was 
Sorrow for caught, merely ; the man in striped 
^^^' clothes behind iron gratings is all 

that — but sorry because he has offended the 
dignity of God's holy government, and inex- 
cusably broken a just and perfect law. 

Eepentance also includes confession of 

sin. And right here our bark of discussion 

strikes the end of many a sunken 

Confession. 

log in our voyage up-stream. 
^ ' Confession ! Confess what ? ' ' Confess 
your sins ! What does the clarion-clear 
Word say ? '^ He that covereth his sins shall 
not prosper, but he that confesseth and for- 
saketh shall have mercy ! " That is the one 
safety for the sinner, confession of sin. 

Unconfessed sins never die. They will 
ford rivers, and vault mountains, and tra- 



REPENTANCE. 109 

verse prairies, and swim oceans, but what 
they will find us out, and, like blood- Bones 
hounds in Southern swamps, bury ^i^^- 
their white teeth in our quivering flesh. 
You can dupe men, but you can't fool God. 
You can make the outside fair and beautiful. 
You can be like the hypocrites of Jesus' 
day — ''whited sepulchers " — but the pierc- 
ing eye of God sees the grinning jaws and 
bare skulls and repulsive joints inside. You 
may smile and bow, and appear amiable, 
and suave, and respectable, and polite, and 
all that, but if there are unconfessed sins in 
your life God sees them, and the sleuth- 
hound Vengeance will yet put his nose to 
your track and dog you to your final damna- 
tion ! 

The fourth point in repentance is the aban- 
donment of sin. Our tears and sobs and 
groans do not avail, unless we 

Quitting Sin. 

forsake sin once for all. So long 
as we hold on to some hidden uncleanness, 
some bosom iniquity, so long Heaven is as 
brass to our cries, and our groans do not ac- 
complish anything in our behalf. 



110 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

Frequently one must make restitution be- 
fore pardon can be obtained. John the Bap- 
tist insisted that ''fruits" in keep- 
Bad Debts. . p ' 

mg With a proiession of repent- 
ance be brought forth. If there are bad 
debts back in the ''years ago " they must be 
paid. If there has been gossip, and some 
one's reputation has been injured, that thing 
must be made right. We can not afford to 
juggle with infinite justice ; we can not af- 
ford to wait until the throne is set to find out 
the worst about ourselves. 

The caption of this chapter is truly an un- 
popular one, but it is none the less salutary on 
Unpopular ^^at accouut. Prcachcrs frequently 
Subject. ^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ strange themes in 

these Dark Ages, but few of them care to 
be so "peculiar" and "harsh " as to preach 
frequently on this cardinal doctrine of re- 
pentance. 

Repentance is taught in the Bible, if any- 
thing is. If the Word of God is to be be- 
Bepent or Hevcd it is "Repent or Perish ! " 
Perish! Which will wc do ? Every man 
under God^s blue vault of heaven has an op- 



REPENTANCE. Ill 

portunity to repent and make friends with 
Jesus Christ. How a man treats this oppor- 
tunity depends wholly upon himself. Just 
as a motor-man on an electric car by chang- 
ing the position of the switch determines the 
direction which the car shall take, so every 
responsible human being by the choices and 
volitions of his own heart either sends his 
soul speedily up the grade to glory or plung- 
ing into the abyss of hell ! 

Will you repent ? That is the all-impor- 
tant question. Heaven, and the angels, and 
good men, and all pure spirits en- u^i^ yon 
treat you to repent ; devils, and de- ^epentv 
mons, and black imps, and mockers of the Son 
of God hold you back in impenitence, i Breal 
from the chains and irons of Satan^s potver I 
You have a choice between eternal light and 
never-ceasing blackness^ between wondrous re- 
demption and direst damnation I 

There is not a sad-faced, smoke-grimed 
soul in the Pit that would not advise you to 
repent. Dives in the torments of 

Dives' Wish. 

the dark regions of despair pleads 

that Father Abraham will send the former 



112 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

beggar Lazarus to his five impenitent breth- 
ren lest they come into that place of woe. 
That is the sentiment of all those poor souls 
who drop into hell. So far from desiring 
companionship they seek to hinder the un- 
saved from coming. 

We sometimes hear rash persons say, ''If 
my husband or wife, or friend, or loved one, " 

AEash ^s the case may be, ''is going to 

Speech. }^q\1^ then I want to go with them. ' ' 
But, friend, they would not want you. They 
would abhor your presence. You would be 
a constant, aggravating reminder of their 
folly in refusing proffered salvation. They 
would blame themselves for your catastro- 
phe, and writhe beneath the unconscious re- 
proach of your sad eyes. 

Genuine repentance is a rare thing. As 
the late Laureate wrote : 

^* This world will not believe a man repents, 
And this wise world of ours is mainly right; 
And seldom does a man repent and use 
Both grace and will to pick the vicious quick 
Of blood and custom wholly out of him, 
And make all new and plant himself afresh. ** 



REPENTANCE. 113 

It is SO easy for a man to suppose that he 
has repented when he is many leagues from 
it. Satan is in the counterfeiting ^^ped 
business on a large scale. He smners. 
manufactures an infinite number of spurious 
repentances, and palms them off on awakened 
sinners, persons who are really alarmed about 
their condition, but who dread the stern, in- 
exorable principles of Scriptural penitence. 

Fright is often mistaken for evangelical 
repentance. The infidel who bellows to God 
in a storm at sea, making vows of Fright Not 
future piety, is not penitent ; he ^^p^^^^^^^- 
is simply scared. The number of death-bed 
professions of repentance which are genuine 
are very, very few. This is proven by care- 
ful observation of those who, supposing that 
they are to die, unexpectedly recover. Usu- 
ally the pretension of penitence is entirely 
disregarded, and the life of sin is resumed 
at the point where sickness interfered. 

Let us remember that, however good our 
experience may seem to be, if there 

Covered Sins. 

are wrong things not made right to 

the best of our ability, we have not truly 



114 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

repented. If there are thefts unconfesseu, 
if there are bastards unowned, if there are 
lies covered over, if there are bills unpaid, 
and we are patting ourselves on the shoulder 
and calling ourselves Christians, we are de- 
ceived, and the devil will surely get us if we 
do not alter our course. 

If there were more genuine cases of re- 
pentance there would be more Scriptural 

A Good conversions and more examples 
Fonndation. ^£ old-timc shoutiug and more 

cases of the conscious witness of the Spirit 
than we see to-day. A house is no safer 
than its foundation is solid, and a man's ex- 
perience is no more secure than the thorough- 
ness of his first beginning in the spiritual life. 

Let us take heed to our repentance, for it 
is the initial work. It is man's first step 
'* Let Us Take to Ward the Cross. Let us make 

^®®^" no mistake here. We can not af- 
ford to err or deceive ourselves in a matter 
so important. Determine first of all to get 
right at all costs. Pray God to ferret out 
all the intricacies of your sin. Take sides 
against sin at every turn. Leave sin so de- 



REPENTANCE. 115 

cidedly as to die rather than go back to it. 
Only by this thorough route can you hope 
for mercy at God's hands. 

But it will do no good to ''turn from sin " 
unless we also ''turn to God." We must 
find a Friend as powerful as was Turning to 
the grip of sin, otherwise we will ^°^' 
again feel the steel fingers throttling our 
throats. Jesus is our only hope. To Him 
let us all turn, for He will turn to us and 
speak pardon and peace. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

CONVERSION — BECOMING A CHRISTIAN. 

'^Ye must be born again, "said the Master 
Teacher to His midnight visitor, and this is 
christiess His solcmn message to every sin- 
Morality. ning soul. Wc are living in the 
times of the Decadence, so far as faith in 
and possession of deep Christian experiences 
is concerned. A Christiess, bloodless mo- 
rality is lauded to the firmament; a con- 
scious, vital soul-experience of holy things 
is looked upon askance. 

We are much interested of late, it seems, 
in brilliant schemes for improving tenement 
Leaving jesTis li^^ ^^^ adjusting the conflict be- 
^^*" tween capital and labor, but we 
do not preach Christ and Him crucified with 
the fervor nor with the success of our fathers. 
We are sanguine and expectant concerning 
'^the Keely cure" and the Elmira Re- 
formatory, but our plan leaves Jesus out 

116 



CONVERSION. 117 

and takes no account of a real change of 
heart. 

Take a criminal, if you like, and feed him 
on ''choice, selected vegetables, " give him 
''cereals" and "not too much a Rotten 
meat, " " exercise ' ' him regularly, ^®^''^' 
and "be sure that his room is well venti- 
lated," improve his health and strengthen 
his muscles ; but think not to make a bad 
heart good, an Isaac out of an Ishmael, a 
Paul out of a Nero, a Saint Jerry MacAuley 
out of a villain from the dives of Water 
Street. A rotten heart is ever a rotten heart 
until God undertakes its alteration. There 
is absolutely no hope hut in the new birth. 

Conversion must be something more than 
mere reformation. The world has great con- 
fidence in the latter for the reason T^e world's 
that the man who reforms his life ^^^' 
"pays up his bills." The world is always 
glad to have its bills paid, and is, of course, 
in favor of a " conversion " that means money 
in pocket for it ; but the conversion of the 
Bible, the conversion wrought in the heart 
by the Holy Ghost, that which not only hews 



118 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

off the limbs of a tree, but digs for the root; 
which not only mows the front lawn, but 
cleans up the old boots, decaying vegetables, 
and sardine cans of the back yard; that 
which makes a man's invisible life as correct 
as that which appears, is in direct antagon- 
ism to the creed of the world, and calls forth 
its venom and virulence. 

Yes, Bible conversion is more than refor- 
mation. Supposing that a man does stop 
A Different drink, his pent-up current of sin- 

cioak. fulness in the unregenerated heart 
will only manifest itself in greater lechery 
or increased profanity or some other devilish 
role. The '^reformed man," who is unre- 
generated, is usually so proud of his white- 
wash that there is no living with him peace- 
ably. His conversation is one monotonous 
strain of boast and brag. The devil of drink 
has changed his cloak and bobbed up again a 
devil of pride. 

Reformation is a human work, and, there- 
TheApothe- ^01^^ without avail in combating 
osisofMan. ^j^^ grim dragou — Sin. We are 

living in a day when what man does is ''the 



CONVERSION. 119 

glory of the age." Man's ''culture," ''col- 
leges," "inventions," "philosophies," "or- 
atory," "criticism," "y/arfare, " these are 
the little gods of civilization, and God is 
draped in white cloths and set aside in some 
out-of-the-way corner. But unless God saves 
us by a divine power, unless He steps in and 
does what man can no more do than he can 
make a v/orld, all men must sink in death, 
struck by the red-hot thunderbolts wielded 
by incensed Justice. 

The potency of the work in the heart 
called conversion lies in the fact of a new 
birth. We are more than adopted, ^ ^^^^^ 
we are born from above and be- Rentage. 
come "partakers of the divine nature." 
We are not only heirs of heaven, but heirs 
of divine traits and characteristics. The 
.grandest inheritance a child can leceive 
from its parent is not a farm, nor a railroad, 
nor a steamship, but a tender conscience, a 
love of nobleness, a delicate taste, a fond- 
ness for books, a leaning toward piety and 
simplicity. God's sons inherit the divine 
attitude and taste so that sin and salvation, 



120 TBUMPEI-CALLS. 

meanness and spiritual-mindedness, selfish- 
ness and generosity of soul are looked upon 
in the same way. 

So wonderful is the transformation wrought 
in a man at his heavenly birth, regeneration, 
''All Things that the entire world assumes a 

^®^" new face and a fresh meaning. 
Old things are passed away, and behold all 
things are become new. ''When I walked 
from the old church to my home the very 
leaves seemed to exult and praise God, 
while the tiny birds sang. Peace, Peace," 
said a creditable testifier in a convention, 
speaking of his conversion. 

This marvelous work, colossal though it 

is, does not depend upon length of days for 

instanta- i^s complctiou. A birthday is not 

^®°^^' a series of years, but a specific 
day. A ball rolling down hill, stopped by 
an agile boy, and sent spinning back again, 
has a specific, definite instant in its history 
when it began to retrace its course. A sin- 
ner plunging down the precipitous path 
toward the Eternal Ditch, does not begin to 
go the other way by a gradual process. 



/ 

CONVERSION. 121 

There is an instant when he begins to move 
up the mountain, down the steep side of 
which he was but an instant before rushing 
recklessly. 

The fact that salvation is by faith proves 
it to be an instantaneous work. Since it is 
by faith, it is not of man, for faith 
is only man depending on God to 
do what he himself can not do. God does not 
pardon gradually. That is not His nature. 
The '^ gradualists " are ever incomplete and 
unsatisfied in their assurance of salvation. 
Faith must reach a point where we can 
trust God to pardon all our sins, and do 

it NOW. 

From the time the soul is born anew it 
possesses overcoming power and will possess 
it as long as confidence in God 

. St. Michael. 

abides and fidelity to His Word 
remains. The man who is not an overcomer 
is overcome. We must either with St. 
Michael stand victorious on the Dragon, Sin, 
or with Judas Iscariot feel the sharp claws 
of his merciless feet. Is your life an over- 
coming life ? If not, examine your experi- 



122 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

ence carefully and learn whether you are a 
real Christian or not. 

God in His mercy has provided power for 
us to overcome temptation at every point. 

Iron If y^^ ^^^ being ground beneath 

Wheels. ^YiQ iron wheels of the car of Jug- 
gernaut, it is because you are not in posses- 
sion of the conquering principle which a 
genuine conversion always brings into the 
heart. 

When we are converted we receive the 

graces of the Spirit — love, joy, peace, pa- 

The Spirit- tience, longsuffering, etc., — and 

Graces. ^hUe they are not perfected and 
given full sway in the heart until entire 
sanctification, yet their presence is an inex- 
pressible boon to the convert. '^ Of His ful- 
ness have all we received and grace for 
grace"; that is to say, for every beauteous 
grace in Jesus there is a corresponding 
miniature in the breast of a real Christian. 

How simple is the way of salvation. Its 
The Simple ^^^7 simplicity repels the pro- 

^^^* found and those who think to 
philosophize themselves into heaven. 



CONVERSION. 123 

Be sure, seeking one, that you are sin- 
cere from crown to toe. Toy not with the 
arrows of Omnipotence, dance not Honesty and 
on the buckler of God. If you ^^-^^«^^^-' 
are honest throughout, there, is hope. To 
your honesty add earnestness. ''When ye 
seek ivith your ivhole heart ye shall find me," 
says the Lord. 

Honestly and earnestly yield yourself to 
Jesus now. Having repented, and I trust 
that every reader has performed 
that duty ere this chapter was 
read, there is nought to do but surrender ab- 
solutely to God and trust the blood to cover all 
your sins. 

Be sure that you trust Him now. Look 
not to feeling for salvation. Do not expect 
to feel until there is first a fact to pact and 
cause feeling. The first great mis- ^®®i^^ff- 
take seekers are apt to make is to fail to 
surrender^ and the second is to expect and 
wait for feeling^ instead of believing that 
just now, according to the promise of God, 
the Atonement does cancel all the sins of 
the past life. Bring your faith-faculty to 



124 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

the active pitch. Say with the hymn- 
writer : 

"The cross now covers my sins, 
The past is under the blood, 
I am trusting in Jesus for all. 
My will IS the will of my God. " 

Having taken God at His word, and be- 
lieved that He ''in no wise casts you out/' 
The Witness but rather takes you in, there is 
of the Spirit, ^^^gi^^ ^^ ^^^ but confidently and 

expectantly await the coming of the witness 
of the Spirit. If your surrender is perfect 
and your faith is complete, God will perform 
the work and tell you that it is done. The 
''telling you that it is done " is the witness. 
It is a sweet, calm, restful peace that steals 
over the troubled waters of the soul whis- 
pering, ''It is done ! It is done ! My sins 
are pardoned. I am a child of God." 



CHAPTER XY. 

SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF REAL CHRISTIANS. 

Salvation does not consist in works, nor 
in the absence of them. It is of grace, the 
''free, unmerited gift " of a gener- By their 
ous and compassionate God. And ^^^^^^' 
yet ''by their fruits shall ye know them." 
If an experience is genuine, its genuineness 
is attested by visible works. A "faith" that 
is "without works " is a "dead," valueless 
faith. James saw the danger that so many 
run into, that of trusting in faith only and 
entirely disregarding the necessity of good 
works. Therefore did he utter his startling 
sentence, a warning to all, lest religion be- 
come a thing of theory and not fact, a mat- 
ter of talk and not practice. 

In the first place, let us remember that if 
a man is a child of God he does not break 
the known law of God, i. e.^ he does not sin. 

125 



126 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

He that sins is a sinner, and no Christian. 
John says a Christian can not sin, 

Sinning. 

and at the same time be a child 
of God. Whoever heard of a thieving honest 
man, a pure libertine, or a conscientious 
knave ? Neither is their such a thing as a 
sinning Christian. 

''But the Westminster Con" — . Very- 
true, but the Bible says, "He that is born of 
Westminster Grod doth not commit siu. " The 

Confession. g-^^j^ ^-jj ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ''crCCds" 

and "confessions" are mildew and ashes. 
"But I sin in word, thought and deed every 
day." Indeed, so does the devil! Would 
you know your pedigree ? Then turn again 
to John: ^' He that committeth sin is of the 
devil.^^ He who boasts of his sinning is like 
the leper who boasts of his sores or the har- 
lot who glories in her shame. 

There is among others a very blessed 
promise in the New Testament preceded 

Blessed by a very stern command. The 

Promises. p^omisc is givcu by God, and He 

says that, after certain things have been 

done. He "will receive us, and will be a 



CHARACTERISTICS OF CHRISTIANS. 127 

Father unto us, and we shall be his sons and 
daughters." What precious vv^ords ! To be 
received by the King of Heaven, to have 
Him for our Father, and to live in the con- 
sciousness of sonship, what could be more 
blessed than privileges like these ? 

But mark! God's promises and His com- 
mands go hand in hand, and, unless the latter 
are obeyed^ the benefits of the former stem 
can not he enjoyed. What are the c°"^^^^d«- 
commands in connection with these gracious 
promises (II. Cor. vi. 14)? ^'Be ye not un- 
equally yoked together ivith unbelievers. . . . 
What concord has Christ tvith Belial? or tvhat 
part hath he that believethivith an infidel? . . . 
Wherefore come out from among them and he 
ye separate^ saith the Lord^ and touch not the 
unclean thing. ^^ 

These words are followed by the glorious 
promises previously quoted. But what strong 
words are these ! Evidently, if 

. Separation. 

God IS gomg to receive us and 
take us into His family, we must separate 
ourselves in a very important sense from the 
world. While we are compelled to associate 



128 TRUMPEr-CALLS. 

in business or work with the world, yet we 
simply can not affiliate with sinners in their 
Christless pleasures and practices and remain 
Christians. 

Supposing that it were possible to convict 

an organization of the crime of murder. That 

The Murder IS, suppose that it could bc shown 

of Morgan, ^j^^^^ accordiug to the direction of 

the ofl&cers and with the sworn consent of its 
members, a man was foully dealt with and 
sent to death. Could a follower of Jesus 
Christ belong to this organization and remain 
innocent ? Would not his hands be red with 
the blood of a dead man? 

Those who have taken the pains to know 
are fully aware that the vile, sneaking mur- 
Pree- ^cr of Morgau was committed by 
Masonry. ^j^^ Masous. To that institution, 
Free-Masonry, is chargeable this unjustifiable 
crime. If you are a Mason, and do not know 
this, do not show your ignorance by denying 
that the deed was done. Moreover, you are 
under oath to agree to consent to and aid 
in the detection and punishment even to 
death itself of all Masons who divulge the 



CHARACTERISTICS OF CHRISTIANS. 129 

silly secrets of the fraternity. You are prom- 
ised to murder, if so directed by your superi- 
ors in the organization, so long as you remain 
a Mason. And yet you say that you are a 
disciple of Jesus Christ, who said, ''In secret 
have I said nothing. ' ' Away with such hypo- 
critical pretension! 

'^But they do lots of good.'' Yes, indeed, 
and we all hear of it when it is done. It is 
trumpeted and magnified far and 

Empty Work. 

Wide. An orange tor a sick man, 
a big parade when he is dead, several million 
dollars in fine temples, and plenty of costly 
banquets — are these your '' good works " ? 

'' If a man is a good Mason, he is a Chris- 
tian." It is a lie, and comes from the pit 
smelling of sulphur. Did you christiess 
ever hear the '''Chaplain''^ honor lodges. 
Christ in the lodge ? Let him pray to Jesus 
if he wants to, but the chances are that he 
will be hissed. The Masons claim to honor 
God the Father, but ''he that hath not the 
Son hath not the Father," saith the Word. 

A man may be a good secret order man 
and be an infidel, an agnostic, atheist, almost 



130 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

anything but a Christian. We have spoken 

jesns of the Masons because they are 
Slighted. representative ; what is true of 
of them is in general true of all secret orders. 
Christ is ignored, and the blood is dishon- 
ored, and the church of Jesus antagonized. 

The man who undertakes to maintain con- 
nection with these Christless organizations, 
An Opened whcthcr by attending the meetings 

Artery. ^^ mcrcly paying his ''dues," is 
like a man who opens an artery to see the 
blood run. He may think he is progressing 
in things spiritual, but his friends can see 
all too plainly that he is weak compared with 
what he would be if he obeyed God and 
"came out from among them and was sep- 
arate and touched not the unclean thing." 

When Judgment comes I do not want my 

feet tangled in a net of godless connections 

and hindrances, do you ? Let us 

Nets. 

cut loose from all but God and 
salvation and grow strong in the things of 
the Lord. 

So the real Christian has no use for secret 
orders. He has nothing to hide. Like his 



CHARACTERISTICS OF CHRISTIANS. 131 

Master, he is open and transparent. Are 
you a real Christian ? 

Another thing which the real Christian 
does not do, is mix with giddy worldlings 
in whist and euchre parties. You wMstand 
will find plenty of church mem- Euchre. 
bers at these gatherings, but they are not 
God^s children. Extenuate these '^ society 
events " as we may, they are first cousins to 
the gambling den, and are as much accursed 
in the sight of God. '^Play cards in your 
own home," if you choose, but do not blame 
'^fate," or ^'fortune," or God if your son is 
a gambler. 

The genuine Christian pays his debts. Of 
course, there are cases where a man simply 
can not get out of debt. Such a 

Debt Paying. 

man God excuses until he can 
pay. He may lire very close to God and be 
in an unavoidable debt; but if a man can 
pay his bills he either pays them or else is 
not a reeil Christian. '^Owe no man any- 
thing but love," is the Bible principle, and 
it is the only safe and consistent one for fol- 
lowers of the Nazerene. 



132 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

The idea of church members having bills 

stand for years unthought of and unheeded ! 

Robbing There are men who talk long and 

Creditors. j^^^ ^^ mcctiug who make no 

effort to pay, and yet in their homes there 
are plenty of silverware, and china, and food 
sufficient to stuff the stomach three times a 
day ! Do not ''give your debts to the Lord " 
in the sense of not making persistent, wise, 
whole-hearted efforts to pay them. 
The New Testament Christian so con- 
stantly walks with God and so 

Church Fairs. 

continually lives in prayer and 
His presence, that he gets to look at things 
the way his Companion looks at them. The 
matter of gospel finance is regarded by him 
in a Pentecostal light. God's plan is that 
the church should be supported by the free- 
will offerings of the people. Backsliders for- 
sake God in this His method, and resort to 
worldly ''suppers," "fairs," "bazaars," 
"festivals," and "parties" to support the 
work of the great God ! 

If a man is converted at all he will give 
gladly without being made to pay a quarter 



CHARACTERISTICS OF CHRISTIANS. 133 

for a fifteen-cent lunch. It is the worldling 
and the man who has drifted *» The supper 
from God who find their element in ^^o^^" 
the church supper crowd. The salvation 
man^ the man who really knows Jesus, has 
something better to do than give money 
through worldly channels, or aid in planning 
and running ecclesiastical restaurants and 
theaters. May the illuminating Spirit en- 
able us to see whether we are professors 
merely, or possessors of the grace of Jesus 
Christ. 

God plants in the breast of every child of 
which He is the spiritual Father a hatred of 
indelicate situations and gather- ^ Hoiy 
ings. If you are seeking a true ^*^*®' 
Christian, you will be more likely to find him 
in his house at prayer than at the grocery 
spinning dirty ''yarns " or listening to some 
other spinner. The claws and beak of the 
buzzard smell of carrion ; the prayers of the 
saints are like ''incense, acceptable to God." 
A man goes where his tastes carry him. We 
all go to "our own company." Religion is 
a " matter of taste. " If we have a taste for 



134 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

ribaldry, gossip, filth, garbage, we will nat- 
urally gravitate toward them ; if our taste is 
holy, we will delight in prayer, in God's 
Word, in clean, edifying conversation. 

Nowhere does a man's taste more unmis- 
takably declare him than when we come 
Tobacco to the tobacco question. ''Can a 
Worms. ^^^ ^^ ^ Christian and use tobac- 
co?" said a questioner to the great Chicago 
evangelist. The great head dropped a 
moment, and he replied, ''Perhaps, but he 
would be a nasty one." Light has come in 
greater strength since those words were 
spoken, and there is doubt now whether a 
man can be a Christian at all and use the 
poisonous nicotine. These repulsive crea- 
tures that infest the three back seats of an 
open trolley car, these whom the railroad 
companies compel to ride in a coach by them- 
selves because of their obnoxious habit, can 
it be that they are faithful followers of the 
Christ of the seamless robe, the fair, holy 
Lily of the Judean valley ? No wonder that 
thoughtful men doubt that such a thing is 
possible. 



CHARACTERISTICS OF CHRISTIANS. 135 

The Bible declares against ''all filthiness 
of the flesh and spirit." Tobacco u^^ 
is an unclean habit, and if you are ^^ithmess.'* 
a genuine Christian you want cleanliness, 
not filth. 

Christ's followers are Bible Christians. 
The Bible is their guide, their law, their 
check-book, their rule of faith and Bibie 
practice. When pardon comes, Christians. 
love for the Bible comes with it, and to the 
justified man the Book of books has ever a 
constant and alluring power. 

If we are truly converted we will show 
our experience by faithfulness in little 
things as well as in greater. 

^ ^ ^1 I-ittle Things. 

Kindness or manner, sympathy 
for the afflicted and the poor and unfortu- 
nate, courtesy toward a common washer- 
woman as genuine as that to the princess, 
carefulness to speak the truth and refrain 
from uncharitableness in speaking of others, 
chastity of thought and imagination, these 
and swarms of other little things are the 
indices to our experience. 

May God help us to ask ourselves the 



136 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

searching question, ''Ami a true child of 
A Leading Grod ? " If wc are not, let us waste 
Question. ^^ ^. ^^^ ^^^ c c ^^ ^^ie first works, ' ' 

submit to Jesus, trust His grace and really 
become that which we have before merely 
professed to be. 



CHAPTER XVI. 

INSTRUCTIONS TO CONVERTS. 

After we have given our all to Jesus, we 
may rest assured that He will give us a per- 
fect pardon, a complete and nor- ^he Kapidity 
mal birth into the family of God ^^^-^^^-• 
by the power of the Spirit. While all con- 
verts are equally fortunate in birthright and 
family privileges, not all make the same 
progress after conversion. The rapidity of 
progress depends upon the nearness with 
which we follow the plan of God for us as 
revealed in the Word. 

There is one thing the young convert must 
not neglect, and that is his Bible. It is 
'^ God's love letter " to the church, God's love 
and deserves the most careful and ^®"®''' 
persevering study. Pore over it upon your 
knees. Search the Scriptures. Commit 
choice promises to memory. Equip yourself 
with the panoply to be found in this celestial 

137 



138 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

armory. Remember that when Satan at- 
tacked Jesus, our Master replied at each 
assault, ''It is written," and well for us if 
our familiarity with God's Book enables us 
to repel the same enemy in the same way. 

A lawyer must know his law books if he 

is to win cases, a physician must familiarize 

himself with his medical authori- 

DelvingDeep. -i? i • . x- i. J 

ties II he IS to cure patients, and 
the Christian must delve deep in his Bible if 
he is to succeed at his business, that of liv- 
ing for God and souls. 

The man who makes rapid strides in divine 
things must frequently visit the closet of 

secret prayer. "We should, of 

Secret Prayer. 

course, have the spirit of prayer, 
but the spirit of prayer will continue only 
by our maintaining regular, stated seasons of 
prayer. Regular prayer increases the spirit 
of prayer, and the spirit of prayer gives life 
to the regular season of devotion. The two 
act reflexly and help each other. 

Talk things over with God. While godly 
men and women can frequently give you 
wholesome advice, yet God has reserved 



INSTRUCTIONS TO CONVERTS. 139 

for Himself the privilege of talking to the 
soul jfirst hand, solving problems, q^^ onr 
clearing mists, stamping rainbows I'ortion. 
on dark clouds, and making the heart con- 
scious of divine comfort. Happy the Chris- 
tian who learns early in his career that there 
is no consolation to be found in man. Make 
up your mind to bury your griefs in the 
bosom of Jesus and give sunshine to oth- 
ers. God is our comfort, our portion, our 
companion, our blessing ; to Him turn al- 
ways when in need rather than to the dry 
springs of human words. 

Remember that salvation is by faith^ not 
feeling. Feeling comes with it, but it is a 
side-dish, not essential at all times. 

T« . ' £ Press On. 

It some morning your spring or 
exuberance is not so geyser-like as the night 
you were converted, do not conclude that you 
are fallen from grace ; perhaps you only have 
a little indigestion. Emotions frequently 
depend on causes purely physical. If you 
are all the Lord's and trusting the blood and 
are not conscious of having committed sin, 
do not side with the devil and be cast down. 



140 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

Eaise a shout of triumph. Tell Satan to go 
to Jesus your Redeemer with his accusations, 
and press on undismayed toward the shining 
City. 

If by some evil chance you fall into sin, 
do not lie in the mud an instant. Run to 

*af Yon Jesus ! Confess your fall ! Plead 

^^^^''' the blood ! Believe the promise 
as at first ! He who commanded His dis- 
ciples to forgive a sinning brother four hun- 
dred and ninety times in one day will not 
turn away from you after your tumble, pro- 
vided your penitence is genuine. 

The only way to be sure of keeping power 
and constant victory is to walk with and 
Obeying the obcy the Holy Spirit. While the 

^^^^^^' newly converted man can not 
properly be said to be baptized with the Holy 
Ghost until he experiences the work of entire 
sanctification, yet he has the Holy Spirit with 
him^ and may rest assured of His co-opera- 
tion and encouragement. In entire sanctifi- 
cation the Spirit comes into the heart, cleans- 
ing it, and giving Himself in His fulness- 
But, even in the merely justified experience, 



INSTRUCTIONS TO CONVERTS. 141 

He is constantly visiting the soul, cheering 
the heart and protecting it from sin. 

The young Christian must make up his 
mind from the first that he will, by the grace 
of God, bear faithful testimony Bearing 
for his Lord and Master. To fail '"'''"^'^^^ 
at this point is to be a Major Andre, a Bene- 
dict Arnold, a traitor to the cause of Jesus 
Christ. Whenever opportunity is given, 
bear testimony to the saving power of the 
blood of your Savior. Do not preach your- 
self, but Jesus. Do not brag of your past 
sinfulness, but modestly, truthfully, explic- 
itly relate what God has done for your 
soul. 

When you are in the presence of sinners, 
''let your light shine." If you are ashamed 
before men, the great Christ will Letting 
blush to own you at the Last Day. '''^^' '^'^'' 
Do not let a man soil, with his foul lips, the 
name of the Lord who died for you, without 
being rebuked for his wickedness. If a man 
tells a smutty joke in your presence, do not 
laugh, but rather rebuke him. Deal thus 
faithfully with sinners and your heart will 



142 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

at length be gladdened by the fruit that 
shall result. 

Attend upon the means of grace. Do not 

allow Satan to magnify business in your 

The Means ^Y^^ ^util you omit the prayer- 

of Grace. meeting or think you can not push 
things aside and get to a camp-meeting or a 
convention, or some other means of grace 
which has ever proved a glorious blessing to 
the people of God. Assemble with God's 
people. AYith David rejoice when it is pos- 
sible to '^go unto the house of the Lord." 
Hearken carefully to the message preached 
by God's ministers in so far as they follow 
Christ. At all times, by all means, seek to 
know the truth, grow in grace and increase 
in the knowledge of God. 

No Christian can afford to be idle. ''An 

idle mind is the devil's workshop," said 

Martin Luther, and the truth of 

Be Active. . . , 

the epigram is seen m the wrecks 
all about us. This is a devilish world, and 
you have wasted too much time in sin to 
be able to afford indolence now. There is a 
Bible to read, there are requests to make at 



INSTRUCTIONS TO CONVERTS. 143 

the Throne, there are souls to save. If you 
have work or business, apply yourself indus- 
triously, not for "filthy lucre," or worldly 
wealth, but that you may have wherewithal 
to help on the work of the Lord. ''Dili- 
gent in business, fervent in spirit, serving 
the Lord." 

Let us remark right here that there is 
much blessing and profit to be found by 
young Christians, as well as those Giving a 
more advanced, by giving at least ^^''^^' 
a tenth of your gross income to God. If the 
church of America did this much, there would 
be sufficient funds to support a minister to 
every seventeen Christians. There is no 
call for so many pastors, but the money is 
certainly needed in the work of God in for- 
eign fields. 

The old Jew gave a tenth, and shall the 
Christian, who is not under law, but thanks 
be to God, under grace, do less? jewsand 
Have we not as much cause to ^^"^^^^^8- 
show our gratitude by giving as had the 
Hebrew ? 

'^ Yes, but I give more than a tenth." Do 



144 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

you keep a careful account and see? A 

A Big quarter given in a collection seems 

Quarter. bigger than the dollar paid for 

anything for ourselves. There are few who 

really give a tenth who do not take accurate 

care in calculating it. 
After the tenth is given, which was the 

''rent " of Canaan, one can go on in liberal- 
stingy ity as far as one feels inclined. 
Professors. q^^ thing is suTC, the men who 

give too much are rare, while the stingy 
professors are thick as gnats in June. 

''God loveth a cheerful giver. " Gordon 

says that "cheerful" is better rendered 

"hilarious." Hilarious givers! 

Almoners. ^ i i • i 

\\ hat a blessmg they are to the 
world ! We meet them now and then, and 
they are like embassadors from God, almon- 
ers of heaven, dispensers of grace and 
goodness. 

There is one thing which the converted 

man must not by any means fail to do. He 

Seek must seek and find the experience 

^°^^" of entire sanctification. The Bible 

tells us that it "is the will of God" (L 



INSTRUCTIONS TO CONVERTS. 145 

Thess. iv. 3), and if so, no child of God can 
refuse it and remain blameless. It is not 
the purpose of this book to discuss the ex- 
perience of sanctification, but we can not 
bid our readers farewell without telling 
them that the precious, victorious grace of 
purity wrought in the heart by the baptism 
with the Holy Ghost is for all of God's chil- 
dren. God is no respecter of persons, and 
what He has done for millions of His fol- 
lowers He will do for you. 

'^ When will He do this? " God's time is 
NOW. *^How can I secure this blessing?'' 
First. Consecrate your entire be- 

Consecration. 

ing With all its ransomed powers, 
talents, faculties, and members to God. As 
a sinner you could not consecrate, you could 
only surrender, ^ Aground arms '^ as a rebel. 
Now you have certain powers as a result of 
redemption, and these you ought to put at 
God's complete disposal. Say to God with 
all the earnestness of your soul: *'I am 
willing — 

To receive what Thou givest, 
To lack what Thou withholdest, 



146 TRUMPET-CALLS. 

To relinquish what Thou takest, 
To suffer what Thou inflictest, 
To be what Thou requirest, 
To do what Thou commandest.'' 
Second. Consecration, however, is not sanc- 
tification in the sense we now mean, the 
sense of John xvii. 17. Consecra- 

Believing. . . 

tion IS man s work; sanctmcation 
is God's work. So after we are entirely con- 
secrated, the next thing to do is to trust the 
blood just now to cleanse from all indivelling 
sin. Believe now that the altar — Christ — 
sanctifies the gift — yourself. God is true, 
though feelings may lie. His promises are 
good: ''Faithful is he that calleth you who 
also will do it " (II. Thess. v. 24). Do what? 
'^ Sanctify you wholly " (v. 23). Yes, praise 
the Lord, the experience is for us all if w^e 
will but consecrate and believe. 
God never fails to cleanse the heart of the 

consecrated, trusting man : neither 

The Witaiess. . 

does He fail to attest His work by 
a clear, indubitable testimony to the fact. 

How plainly does the writer remember his 
own experience in regard to this wonderful 



INSTRUCTIONS TO CONVERTS. 147 

gift of God. In utter helplessness he aban- 
doned himself to the Lord, to 

Experience. 

be His property forever. Then 
when at the end of his own resources there 
was no one else to trust but Jesus, and to 
Him the arms of his soul stretched out in 
pleading prayer. He was told to ''believe 
that the blood cleansed." He did so. Al- 
most immediately a sweet, ineffable peace 
filled his heart, and he knew beyond a doubt 
that he was sanctified wholly. Praise the 
liord. 

This sunshiney Canaan-life is God's 
thought for us all. Shall we come short of 
His plan and grieve His tender 

^ ^ With Jesus. 

heart. Rather let us put our 
hands confidently in the hands of our Joshua 
— Jesus, and v/ith Him cleave the rolling 
Jordan, and with Him possess the fair land 
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